Game Theory for Networks. 7th International EAI Conference, GameNets 2017 Knoxville, TN, USA, May 9, 2017, Proceedings

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On the Finite Population Evolutionary Stable Strategy Equilibrium for Perfect Information Extensive Form Games

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-67540-4_5,
        author={Aycan Varg\'{y}n and Mehmet Dalkılı\`{e}},
        title={On the Finite Population Evolutionary Stable Strategy Equilibrium for Perfect Information Extensive Form Games},
        proceedings={Game Theory for Networks. 7th International EAI Conference, GameNets 2017 Knoxville, TN, USA, May 9, 2017, Proceedings},
        proceedings_a={GAMENETS},
        year={2017},
        month={9},
        keywords={Perfect information extensive form game Ultimatum game Fairness Finite population evolutionary stable strategy},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-319-67540-4_5}
    }
    
  • Aycan Vargün
    Mehmet Dalkılıç
    Year: 2017
    On the Finite Population Evolutionary Stable Strategy Equilibrium for Perfect Information Extensive Form Games
    GAMENETS
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67540-4_5
Aycan Vargün1,*, Mehmet Dalkılıç1,*
  • 1: Ege University
*Contact email: 91130000040@ogrenci.ege.edu.tr, mehmet.emin.dalkilic@ege.edu.tr

Abstract

This study presents an adaptation of finite population evolutionary stable strategy definition by Schaffer in [1, 2] to perfect information extensive form games. In this adaptation, players reach a finite population evolutionary stable strategy equilibrium by using finite population evolutionary stable strategies which ensure that the game ends up with equal payoffs. We studied the fpESS equilibria of some famous two-player bargaining games such as the ultimatum game, the dictatorship game and a dollar auction game. Not all Perfect Information Extensive form games have an fpESS equilibrium. However, when there exist an fpESS equilibrium in these games, the outcome is a perfectly fair one; that is, all players get equal payoffs.