Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58356 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 11-12
Publisher: 
University of California, Department of Economics, Davis, CA
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: 
C72
C73
D43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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