Mean-Field Game Modeling the Bandwagon Effect with Activation Costs

Dynamic Games and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 456-476

  Bagagiolo, Fabio ^a   Bauso, Dario ^b,c   Pesenti, Raffaele ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Activation costs; Bandwagon effect; Games with infinitely many players; Mean field games; Mode; Threshold policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989347270     PISSN: 21530785     EISSN: 21530793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13235-015-0167-x     Document Type: Article

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