Orders of limits for stationary distributions, stochastic dominance, and stochastic stability

Theoretical Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-26

  Sandholm, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Equilibrium selection; Evolutionary game theory; Stochastic stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955249227     PISSN: 19336837     EISSN: 15557561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/TE554     Document Type: Article

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