Emergence of heterogeneity in a noncompetitive resource allocation problem
- Matzke, Christina Bonn Graduate School of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Bonn, Germany
- Challet, Damien Physics Department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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25.07.2011
Published in:
- Physical Review E statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics. - 2011, vol. 84, no. 1, p. 016107
English
Tuning one’s shower in some hotels may turn into a challenging coordination game with imperfect information. The temperature sensitivity increases with the number of agents, making the problem possibly unlearnable. Because there is in practice a finite number of possible tap positions, identical agents are unlikely to reach even approximately their favorite water temperature. We show that a population of agents with homogeneous strategies is evolutionary unstable, which gives insights into the emergence of heterogeneity, the latter being tempting but risky.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Physique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Physics
- License
- License undefined
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- RERO DOC 27248
- DOI 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.016107
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/302055
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