Separating equilibria in continuous signalling games

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1427, 2002, Pages 1595-1606

  Bergstrom, Carl T ^a   Számadó, Szabolcs ^b   Lachmann, Michael ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Costly signalling; Handicap principle; Honest signalling; Indexes; Separating equilibrium; Vector field

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL;

EID: 0037195888     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1068     Document Type: Review

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