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datestamp: 2016-01-15 02:06:34
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type: monograph
metadata_visibility: show
item_issues_count: 2
creators_name: Foster, D.
creators_name: Young, H.P.
creators_id: AL1397
title: On the Nonconvergence of Fictitious Play in Coordination Games
ispublished: pub
internal_subjects: iis_ecn
internal_subjects: iis_neg
divisions: prog_ins
note: see WP-96-033 for revised version
abstract: It is natural to conjecture that fictitious play converges in coordination games, but this is shown by counterexample to be false. Variants of fictitious play in which past actions are eventually forgotten and there are small stochastic perturbations are much better behaved: over the long run players manage to coordinate with high probability.
date: 1995-01
date_type: published
publisher: WP-95-001
iiasapubid: WP-95-001
price: 10
creators_browse_id: 2539
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
place_of_pub: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
pages: 10
coversheets_dirty: FALSE
fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book
citation:   Foster, D. & Young, H.P. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/2539.html>  (1995).  On the Nonconvergence of Fictitious Play in Coordination Games.   IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-95-001     
document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4591/1/WP-95-001.pdf