forum.jpg (4424 bytes)     "Inside  every small problem is a large problem struggling to get out."

Rules Forum Contributors [For contributors only]

Topics


Applications
Auctions
Bargaining
Experimental Economics
Forum
General Equilibrium
Napster
other
Other Topics
Prisoners Dilemma
Zero Sum Games

 

Most Recent Posts


Ask a question about: Other Topics



Topic: Other Topics. Respond to the question: Game Taxonomy?
06/26/2008 05:50 AM by María Paula Baquero; Game Taxonomy
Hello! I want to make a taxonomy of the types of games there exist, with their particular characteristics. I have allready defined some types, but I want to know if you have any information on these theme? Thank You. [View full text and thread]

Topic: General Equilibrium. Respond to the question: Mixed strategies in a 5 x 5 game Gauss?
06/20/2008 01:22 PM by Ariel; Mixed strategies in a 5 x 5 game - Gauss Jordan method
Hi everybody, I'm new in this forum. I have a problem when trying to find a mixed strategy equilibria in a 2 players, 5 x 5 game. I use the Gauss Jordan method to find the 5 unknowns, but I get a negative probability. Please see the [View full text and thread]

Topic: Other Topics. Respond to the question: questions about stochastic stable equili?
05/11/2008 07:39 PM by xyang; questions about stochastic stable equilibruim
1. Is there any difference between ¡®fictitious play¡¯ and ¡®fictitious play property¡¯? there are still other questions about Peyton Young's book, Individual Strategy and Social Structure.I wrote them in an word file,uploaded [View full text and thread]

Topic: General Equilibrium. Respond to the question: convergence to Nash equilibrium in Nper?
05/10/2008 08:47 AM by name withheld; convergence to Nash equilibrium in N-persons concave game
Hello, I have an updating scheme which always seem to converge to the same fixed point. Using Brouwer's fixed point theorem, I can proof the existence of a fixed point. However, I wasn't able to proof convergence of my algorithm to a [View full text and thread]

Topic: General Equilibrium. Respond to the question: convergence to Nash equilibrium in Nper?
05/10/2008 08:46 AM by name withheld; convergence to Nash equilibrium in N-persons concave game
Hello, I have an updating scheme which always seem to converge to the same fixed point. Using Brouwer's fixed point theorem, I can proof the existence of a fixed point. However, I wasn't able to proof convergence of my algorithm to a [View full text and thread]

Topic: Other Topics. Respond to the question: Asymmetric Information?
04/25/2008 08:55 AM by name withheld; Asymmetric Information
Hi, i'm researching for a short paper on the consequences of asmmetric information, focusing on moral hazard, adverse selection or signalling and was hoping someone could direct me to some papers/ journals/websites that had good, [View full text and thread]

Topic: Bargaining. Respond to the question: Holdout and Wage Bargaining in continuou?
04/14/2008 12:11 PM by Giancarlo Musto; Holdout and Wage Bargaining in continuous time
I'm an italian student. I'm studying a model about holdout and the wage bargaining in the continuous time, but I find some difficulties with the utility functions. I'd like to have a little help. I attach a pdf file with a short [View full text and thread]

Topic: Other Topics. Respond to the question: Help on Existance of NE in a two perso?
04/10/2008 07:20 AM by Dror He; Help on Existance of N.E. in a two person zero - sum game.
Hi The payoff function for the game is enlclosed in the following PDF file. I have not been able to prove existance of NE. Anyone have a good Idea? [View full text and thread]

Topic: Other Topics. Respond to the question: What math to start?
04/04/2008 10:55 AM by Monty; What math to start?
Hello, I'm recently interested in Game Theory and have a fairly basic understanding of the subject, ie. I've worked through some limited game trees, payoffs, dominant strategies, and equilibriums. I want to explore further into the [View full text and thread]

Topic: Other Topics. Respond to the question: mixed strategy with dominant strategies?
03/03/2008 05:41 PM by name withheld; mixed strategy with dominant strategies
I need help! Can a 2x2 game where one person has a strictly dominant strategy ever have a mixed strategy Nash equilibrium? [View full text and thread]

Topic: Other Topics. Respond to the question: uncertainty about consequences?
02/18/2008 03:03 AM by Nick van der Beek; uncertainty about consequences
Dear Sir, Although there is much literature on uncertainty in terms of probability, I wondered whether there it is possible in the current economic models to apply uncertainty about the type of consequences. If there is a actor [View full text and thread]

Topic: Applications. Respond to the question: relevance of games theory?
02/02/2008 05:53 AM by student; relevance of games theory
please i would like you to help me with a school project. [View full text and thread]

Topic: Other Topics. Respond to the question: constructing a payoff matrix?
01/25/2008 10:21 AM by name withheld; constructing a payoff matrix
Hi. Hope someone can answer this. If the industry demand curve is given for a duopoly,and each player in the game seeks to maximise his profit, how does one construct a payoff matrix indicating various levels of profits based on output [View full text and thread]

Topic: Forum. Respond to the question: Looking for help with rules for technolo?
01/17/2008 01:47 PM by name withheld; Looking for help with rules for technology prize
Hello, I am looking for some help in understanding what is needed to test the rules for a technology prize/contest solicitation, ie a "gaming" session to insure that the rules produce what we need. I can go into more details if [View full text and thread]

Topic: Other Topics. Respond to the question: Practical example on real game as Pick3?
01/09/2008 02:29 PM by name withheld; not possible
I admit I don't know what theory you are referring to. I will say that if you are referring to a lottery game (Pick3), then it is not possible to forecast using any pure mathematical method. [View full text and thread]

Topic: Other Topics. Respond to the question: Offer to share solutions for Fudenberg o?
12/20/2007 07:43 AM by Bob; Offer to share solutions for Fudenberg or Myerson Book
Hi, I am about to start working through the Fudenberg Game theory Book, or the Myerson (in fact I have read the first chapter of Myerson and attempted the exercises), and I was wondering if there were any other autodidactics out [View full text and thread]

Topic: Forum. Respond to the question: Flash Game?
12/17/2007 04:47 PM by name withheld; Flash Game
How do you make games like this? http://vondutch.myminicity.com/ Its a colony builder in a small flash-game. Im sure some of you have played. Its getting pretty popular. [View full text and thread]

Topic: Other Topics. Respond to the question: Practical example on real game as Pick3?
11/21/2007 02:51 AM by Fabio Butto; Practical example on real game as Pick3
Hi all, I would like to ask if somebody already applied the theory on real gaming (like Pick3). Reading you interesting paper "Conditional Universal Consistency" and other papers like Asymptotic Calibration of D. Foster and Vohra [View full text and thread]

Topic: Other Topics. Respond to the question: gibbons solutions?
11/05/2007 05:58 PM by name withheld; gibbon's solutions
I have A question, concerning Gibbon's '' Game Theory for applied economists''. I wonder if anybody knows If there is a solution's manual. Thank you very much. [View full text and thread]

Topic: Other Topics. Respond to the question: Pure strategies in a tictactoe game?
11/01/2007 05:43 AM by va_zotov; Pure strategies in a tic-tac-toe game.
Hello, I have a very simple and dumb question about multistage games (but not enough simple for me). I'm reading Guillermo Owen's "Game theory" text book and at the page 87 he gives such an example: Suppose tic-tac-toe game. Step 1: [View full text and thread]