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Best reply structure and equilibrium convergence in generic games
Marco Pangallo, Torsten Heinrich, J Doyne Farmer
Game theory is widely used as a behavioral model for strategic interactions in biology and social science. It is common practice to assume that players quickly converge to an equil…
Statistical Basis for Predicting Technological Progress
Bela Nagy, J. Doyne Farmer, Quan M. Bui +1
Forecasting technological progress is of great interest to engineers, policy makers, and private investors. Several models have been proposed for predicting technological improveme…
The cause of universality in growth fluctuations
Yonathan Schwarzkopf, Robert L. Axtell, J. Doyne Farmer
Phenomena as diverse as breeding bird populations, the size of U.S. firms, money invested in mutual funds, the GDP of individual countries and the scientific output of universities…
Historical Costs of Coal-Fired Electricity and Implications for the Future
James McNerney, J. Doyne Farmer, Jessika E. Trancik
We study the costs of coal-fired electricity in the United States between 1882 and 2006 by decomposing it in terms of the price of coal, transportation costs, energy density, therm…
A simple evolutionary game with feedback between perception and reality
Dmitriy Cherkashin, J. Doyne Farmer, Seth Lloyd
We study an evolutionary game of chance in which the probabilities for different outcomes (e.g., heads or tails) depend on the amount wagered on those outcomes. The game is perhaps…
An empirical behavioral model of price formation
Szabolcs Mike, J. Doyne Farmer
Although behavioral economics has demonstrated that there are many situations where rational choice is a poor empirical model, it has so far failed to provide quantitative models o…