On (un)knots and dynamics in games

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 46-60

  Demichelis, Stefano ^a   Germano, Fabrizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Degree; Dynamics; Geometry of Nash equilibria; Index; Knots; Learning mixed equilibria; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036811799     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-8256(02)00009-X     Document Type: Article

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