Stochastic evolution with slow learning

Economic Theory

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 379-405

  Beggs, Alan ^a  

^a WADHAM COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion approximation; Equilibrium selection; Evolutionary game theory; Risk dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036003050     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00004218     Document Type: Article

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