Experimentation, imitation, and stochastic stability: Addendum

Citation
D. Gale et Rw. Rosenthal, Experimentation, imitation, and stochastic stability: Addendum, J ECON THEO, 97(1), 2001, pp. 164-174
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Economics
Journal title
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
ISSN journal
00220531 → ACNP
Volume
97
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Pages
164 - 174
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-0531(200103)97:1<164:EIASSA>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
Results from D. Gale and R. W. Rosenthal [J. Econ. Theory 84 (1999). 1-40] are extended to characterize convergence properties of the model for (almos t) every set of parameters. In particular. there is a sharp delineation bet ween the parameter region in which the process of experimentation and imita tion converges almost surely to the equilibrium and another region in which the process is only weakly convergent (unstable in the small but not too u nstable). (C) 2001 Academic Press.