Climb on the Bandwagon: Consensus and Periodicity in a Lifetime Utility Model with Strategic Interactions

Dynamic Games and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 1061-1075

  Dai Pra, Paolo ^a   Sartori, Elena ^a   Tolotti, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Consensus; Mean field games; Multiple Nash equilibria; Opinion dynamics; Social interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85065070559     PISSN: 21530785     EISSN: 21530793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13235-019-00299-y     Document Type: Article

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