Evolutionary dynamics over continuous action spaces for population games that arise from symmetric two-player games

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 743-777

  Friedman, Daniel ^a   Ostrov, Daniel N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gradient dynamics; Population games; Shock waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875374593     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2012.07.004     Document Type: Article

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