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Size-dependent minimum-effort games and constrained interactions

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  • Cui, Zhiwei
  • Jiang, Ge
  • Shi, Fei

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This paper develops a model in which agents choose a limited number of partners to play minimum-effort games. The payoff for each agent depends on the minimum of the efforts of her partners and herself, and increases with the size of her interaction neighborhood. We show that when agents interact with everyone with whom they have a link, whoever forms it, coordination on the lowest effort will be (uniquely) selected in the long run.

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  • Cui, Zhiwei & Jiang, Ge & Shi, Fei, 2023. "Size-dependent minimum-effort games and constrained interactions," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 223(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:223:y:2023:i:c:s0165176523000022
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.110977
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    Keywords

    Minimum-effort games; Network formation; Myopic best-response learning;
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    JEL classification:

    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • D85 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Network Formation

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