Brown's original fictitious play

被引：49

作者：

Berger, Ulrich ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Vienna Univ Econ, Inst VW 5, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

来源：

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY | 2007年 / 135卷 / 01期

关键词：

fictitious play; learning process; ordinal potential games;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jet.2005.12.010

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

What modem game theorists describe as "fictitious play" is not the learning process George W. Brown defined in his 1951 paper. Brown's original version differs in a subtle detail, namely the order of belief updating. In this note we revive Brown's original fictitious play process and demonstrate that this seemingly innocent detail allows for an extremely simple and intuitive proof of convergence in an interesting and large class of games: nondegenerate ordinal potential games. (c) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：572 / 578

页数：7

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