Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/127338 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper Series No. 529
Publisher: 
University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
We show that in symmetric two-player exact potential games, the simple decision rule "imitate-if-better" cannot be beaten by any strategy in a repeated game by more than the maximal payoff difference of the one-period game. Our results apply to many interesting games including examples like 2x2 games, Cournot duopoly, price competition, public goods games, common pool resource games, and minimum effort coordination games.
Subjects: 
Imitate-the-best
learning
exact potential games
symmetric games
relative payoffs
zero-sum games
JEL: 
D43
C73
C72
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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