Imitation and the evolution of Walrasian behavior: Theoretically fragile but behaviorally robust

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 145, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1603-1617

  Apesteguia, Jose ^a   Huck, Steffen ^b   Oechssler, Jörg ^c   Weidenholzer, Simon ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cournot markets; Evolutionary game theory; Experiments; Imitation; Information; Simulations; Stochastic stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955871478     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2010.02.014     Document Type: Article

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