LAWS OF LARGE NUMBERS FOR DYNAMIC-SYSTEMS WITH RANDOMLY MATCHED INDIVIDUALS

被引：51
作者：
BOYLAN, RT
机构：
[1] Washington University, Olin School of Business, St. Louis
来源：
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY | 1992年 / 57卷 / 02期
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D O I：
10.1016/0022-0531(92)90046-K
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
Biologists and economists have analyzed populations where each individual interacts with randomly selected individuals. The random matching generates a very complicated stochastic system. Consequently biologists and economists have approximated such a system with a deterministic system. The justification for such an approximation is that the population is assumed to be very large and thus some law of large numbers must hold. This paper gives a characterization of random matching schemes for countably infinite populations. In particular this paper shows that there exists a random matching scheme such that the stochastic system and the deterministic system are the same. © 1992.
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