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Conformity and Bounded Rationality in Games with Many Players

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  • Edward Cartwright

    (Department of Economics, University of Warwick, UK)

  • Myrna Wooders

    (Department of Economics, University of Warwick, UK)

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Interpret a set of players all playing the same pure strategy and all with similar attributes as a society. Is it consistent with self interested behaviour for a population to organise itself into a relatively small number of societies? In a companion paper we characterised how large e must be, in terms of parameters describing individual games, for an equilibrium to exhibit conformity in pure strategies. In this paper we provide a wide class of games where such conformity is boundedly rational, that is, where can be chosen to be small.

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  • Edward Cartwright & Myrna Wooders, 2003. "Conformity and Bounded Rationality in Games with Many Players," Working Papers 2003.123, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
    • Handle: RePEc:fem:femwpa:2003.123
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    1. Edward Cartwright & Myrna Wooders, 2009. "On equilibrium in pure strategies in games with many players," International Journal of Game Theory, Springer;Game Theory Society, vol. 38(1), pages 137-153, March.
    2. Cartwright, Edward, "undated". "Imitation and the emergence of Nash equilibrium play in games with many players," Economic Research Papers 269568, University of Warwick - Department of Economics.
    3. Edward Cartwright & Myrna Wooders, 2008. "Behavioral Properties of Correlated Equilibrium; Social Group Structures with Conformity and Stereotyping," Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers 0814, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics.
    4. Azrieli, Yaron, 2009. "Categorizing others in a large game," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 67(2), pages 351-362, November.

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    • C70 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - General

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