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## Dynamic Games and Applications OnlineFirst articles

23.05.2022

### Q-Learning in Regularized Mean-field Games

In this paper, we introduce a regularized mean-field game and study learning of this game under an infinite-horizon discounted reward function. Regularization is introduced by adding a strongly concave regularization function to the one-stage …

verfasst von:
Berkay Anahtarci, Can Deha Kariksiz, Naci Saldi

21.05.2022

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27.04.2022

### Investment in Cleaner Technologies in a Transboundary Pollution Dynamic Game: A Numerical Investigation

Within a noncooperative transboundary pollution dynamic game, we study the strategic impact of a region’s investment in the adoption of a cleaner technology, as embodied by a reduction in the emission per output ratio, on the equilibrium outcomes …

verfasst von:
Javier de Frutos, Víctor Gatón, Paula M. López-Pérez, Guiomar Martín-Herrán

23.04.2022

### Ex-Ante Welfare Superiority of the Boston Mechanism Over the Deferred Acceptance Mechanism

We compare two widely used allocation methods for assigning students to schools—the deferred acceptance (DA) mechanism and the Boston mechanism—in terms of students’ welfare under a symmetric incomplete information setting in which each student’s …

verfasst von:
Ethem Akyol

Open Access 22.04.2022

### Chasing a Drunk Robber in Many Classes of Graphs

A cops and robbers game (CR) on graphs was originated in 1983 by Quilliot and by Nowakowski and Winkler independently. This game has been applied in many problems in the area of theoretical computer science such as information seeking, robot …

verfasst von:
Nuttanon Songsuwan, Dawud Thongtha, Pawaton Kaemawichanurat

31.03.2022

### Gossip: Perspective Taking to Establish Cooperation

Problems of cooperation are frequent among living organisms, but they are difficult to solve. Humans have been able to produce large-scale cooperation among unrelated individuals through reputation systems. A challenging puzzle, however, is how …

verfasst von:
Simone Righi, Károly Takács

Open Access 31.03.2022

### Coordinated Replenishment Game and Learning Under Time Dependency and Uncertainty of the Parameters

This research proposes a periodic review multi-item two-layer inventory model. The main contribution is a novel approach to determine the can-order threshold in a two-layer model under time-dependent and uncertain demand and setup costs. The first …

verfasst von:
Stefanny Ramirez, Laurence H. van Brandenburg, Dario Bauso

Open Access 22.03.2022 | Correction

### Correction to: Efficiency and Stability in a Process of Teams Formation

In the original publication of the article, the affiliation details for the co-author “Paolo Pin” were incorrectly published. This has been corrected with this erratum.

verfasst von:
Leonardo Boncinelli, Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin

Open Access 19.03.2022

### An Oligopoly-Fringe Model with HARA Preferences

Inspired by empirical evidence from the oil market, we build a model of an oligopoly facing a fringe as well as competition from renewable resources. We explore different subclasses of HARA utility functions (Cobb–Douglas, power and quadratic …

verfasst von:
Gerard van der Meijden, Cees Withagen, Hassan Benchekroun

Open Access 05.03.2022

### Efficiency and Stability in a Process of Teams Formation

Motivated by data on co-authorships in scientific publications, we analyze a team formation process that generalizes matching models and network formation models, allowing for overlapping teams of heterogeneous size. We apply different notions of …

verfasst von:
Leonardo Boncinelli, Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin

Open Access 05.03.2022

### Coalition Formation Under Dominance Invariance

An abstract game satisfies Dominance Invariance if the indirect and the direct dominance relations, or myopic and farsighted dominance, are equivalent. Mauleon et al. (Int J Game Theory 43(4):925–943, 2014) study Dominance Invariance as an …

verfasst von:
Mert Kimya

03.03.2022

### Cooperation in Dynamic Games with Asymmetric Players: The Role of Social Preferences

I study a two-player repeated game where payoffs are asymmetric. Attempts to form cooperative agreements in such an environment, for example by pro-rating actions relative to the one-shot Nash equilibrium, have generally struggled in practice. I …

verfasst von:
Charles F. Mason

02.03.2022

### Dynamic Game of International Pollution Control with General Oligopolistic Equilibrium: Neary Meets Dockner and Long

This study develops a two-country differential game model of transboundary pollution control with a continuum of polluting and oligopolistic industries. Governments choose the paths of their pollution permits, the market-clearing prices of which …

verfasst von:
Akihiko Yanase, Keita Kamei

Open Access 21.02.2022

### Groundwater Exploitation and Illegal Behaviors in a Differential Game

This paper studies groundwater management through a leader–follower differential game between a water agency and farmers. The access to the common pool is not free and farmers have to pay a water tax to withdraw. To save this cost, we assume that …

verfasst von:
Marta Biancardi, Gianluca Iannucci, Giovanni Villani

16.02.2022

### Impact of Utilities on the Structures of Stable Networks with Ordered Group Partitioning

This paper considers a society partitioned into ordered groups and examines the stable networks that players form. Four utility functions combining benefits and costs from network connections are introduced. The utilities significantly influence …

verfasst von:
Ping Sun, Elena Parilina

14.02.2022

### Dynamic Games Among Teams with Delayed Intra-Team Information Sharing

We analyze a class of stochastic dynamic games among teams with asymmetric information, where members of a team share their observations internally with a delay of d. Each team is associated with a controlled Markov Chain, whose dynamics are …

verfasst von:
Dengwang Tang, Hamidreza Tavafoghi, Vijay Subramanian, Ashutosh Nayyar, Demosthenis Teneketzis

Open Access 10.02.2022

### Where Do Mistakes Lead? A Survey of Games with Incompetent Players

Mathematical models often aim to describe a complicated mechanism in a cohesive and simple manner. However, reaching perfect balance between being simple enough or overly simplistic is a challenging task. Frequently, game-theoretic models have an …

verfasst von:
Thomas Graham, Maria Kleshnina, Jerzy A. Filar