A Note on Best Response Dynamics

Ed Hopkins

A Note on Best Response Dynamics

School of Economics

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Abstract

We investigate the relationship between the continuous time best response dynamic, its perturbed version and evolutionary dynamics in relation to mixed strategy equilibria. We find that as the level of noise approaches zero, the perturbed best response dynamic has the same quantitative properties as a broad class of evolutionary dynamics. That is, stability properties of equilibria are robust across learning dynamics of quite different origins and motivations.

Original language	English
Publisher	Edinburgh School of Economics, University of Edinburgh
Publication status	Published - 1999

Publication series

Name	ESE Discussion Papers
No.	3

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