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The theory of learning in games has extensively studied situations where agents respond dynamically to each other by optimizing a fixed utility function. However, in real situations, the strategic environment varies as a result of past…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Brandon C. Collins , Shouhuai Xu , Philip N. Brown

This paper studies a duopoly investment model with uncertainty. There are two alternative irreversible investments. The first firm to invest gets a monopoly benefit for a specified period of time. The second firm to invest gets information…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-01 Kristina Rognlien Dahl , Espen Stokkereit

Winners-take-all situations introduce an incentive for agents to diversify their behavior, since doing so will result in splitting an eventual price with fewer people. At the same time, when the payoff of a process depends on a parameter…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Abel Molina

We study the formation of stable outcomes via simple dynamics in cardinal hedonic games, where the utilities of agents change over time depending on the history of the coalition formation process. Specifically, we analyze situations where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Niclas Boehmer , Martin Bullinger , Anna Maria Kerkmann

Stable matching is a fundamental area with many practical applications, such as centralised clearinghouses for school choice or job markets. Recent work has introduced the paradigm of near-feasibility in capacitated matching settings, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Frederik Glitzner

We study the existence of stable matchings when agents have choice correspondences instead of preference relations. We extend the framework of \cite{chambers2017choice} by weakening the path independence assumption. For many-to-many…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-20 Varun Bansal , Mihir Bhattacharya , Ojasvi Khare

Commitment devices are powerful tools that can influence and incentivise certain behaviours by linking them to rewards or punishments. These devices are particularly useful in decision-making, as they can steer individuals towards specific…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Maria Alejandra Ramirez , Yoav Kolumbus , Rosemarie Nagel , David Wolpert , Jürgen Jost

Two-sided matching markets, environments in which two disjoint groups of agents seek to partner with one another, arise in several contexts. In static, centralized markets where agents know their preferences, standard algorithms can yield a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Vade Shah , Bryce L. Ferguson , Jason R. Marden

We introduce a simple stochastic dynamics for game theory. It assumes ``local'' rationality in the sense that any player climbs the gradient of his utility function in the presence of a stochastic force which represents deviation from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-23 Matteo Marsili , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Two-sided matchings are an important theoretical tool used to model markets and social interactions. In many real life problems the utility of an agent is influenced not only by their own choices, but also by the choices that other agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Simina Brânzei , Tomasz P. Michalak , Talal Rahwan , Kate Larson , Nicholas R. Jennings

Motivated by growing evidence of agents' mistakes in strategically simple environments, we propose a solution concept -- robust equilibrium -- that requires only an asymptotically optimal behavior. We use it to study large random matching…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-09-26 Georgy Artemov , Yeon-Koo Che , YingHua He

We develop inference for a two-sided matching model where the characteristics of agents on one side of the market are endogenous due to pre-matching investments. The model can be used to measure the impact of frictions in labour markets…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-08-28 Jacob Schwartz

Coalition formation is often modeled as a static equilibrium problem, neglecting the dynamic processes governing how agents self-organize. This paper proposes a dynamic split-and-merge framework that balances two conflicting economic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Quanyan Zhu , Zhengye Han

In this paper we analyse a dynamic model of investment under uncertainty in a duopoly, in which each firm has an option to switch from the present market to a new market. We construct a subgame perfect equilibrium in mixed strategies and…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2015-06-16 Jan-Henrik Steg , Jacco Thijssen

This paper proposes a new equilibrium concept "robust perfect equilibrium" for non-cooperative games with a continuum of players, incorporating three types of perturbations. Such an equilibrium is shown to exist (in symmetric mixed…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-05-06 Enxian Chen , Lei Qiao , Xiang Sun , Yeneng Sun

This paper studies two-sided many-to-one matching in which firms have complementary preferences. We show that stable matchings exist under a balancedness condition that rules out a specific type of odd-length cycles formed by firms'…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-05-17 Chao Huang

The stable marriage problem, as addressed by Gale and Shapely [1] consists of providing a bipartite matching between n " boys " and n " girls "-each of whom have a totally ordered preference list over the other set-such that there exists no…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Mircea Adrian Digulescu

We study the problem of finding equilibrium strategies in multi-agent games with incomplete payoff information, where the payoff matrices are only known to the players up to some bounded uncertainty sets. In such games, an ex-post…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Wenshuo Guo , Mihaela Curmei , Serena Wang , Benjamin Recht , Michael I. Jordan

We propose a dynamical model for group formation and switching behavior in systems where each group competes for members through attraction functions that are inversely proportional to their current sizes. This attraction is modulated by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Samit Ghosh

We consider a dynamic version of sender-receiver games, where the sequence of states follows an irreducible Markov chain observed by the sender. Under mild assumptions, we provide a simple characterization of the limit set of equilibrium…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Jerome Renault , Eilon Solan , Nicolas Vieille