Minimum-Effort Coordination Games: Stochastic Potential and Logit Equilibrium

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 177-199

  Anderson, Simon P ^a   Goeree, Jacob K ^a,b   Holt, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coordination game; Logit equilibrium; Stochastic potential

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000024264     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/game.2000.0800     Document Type: Article

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