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Clever agents in adaptive learning

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  • Matros, Alexander

    (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics)

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Saez-Marti and Weibull [4] investigate the consequences of letting some agents play a myopic best reply to the myopic best reply in Young's [8] bargaining model. This is how they introduce ''cleverness'' of players. We analyze such clever agents in general finite two-player games. We show that Young's [9] prediction is robust: adaptive learning with clever agents does select the same minimal curb set as in the absence of clever agents, if their population share is less than one. However, the long-run strategies distribution in such a curb set may vary with the share of clever agents.

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  • Matros, Alexander, 2000. "Clever agents in adaptive learning," SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 403, Stockholm School of Economics.
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    Keywords

    Evolution; game theory; bounded rationality; Markov chain; stochastic stability;
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    JEL classification:

    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games

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