Mathematics – Dynamical Systems
Scientific paper
2007-08-23
Mathematics
Dynamical Systems
to appear in Games and Economic Behavior
Scientific paper
In the 60's Shapley provided an example of a two player fictitious game with periodic behaviour. In this game, player $A$ aims to copy $B$'s behaviour and player $B$ aims to play one ahead of player $A$. In this paper we generalize Shapley's example by introducing an external parameter. We show that the periodic behaviour in Shapley's example at some critical parameter value disintegrates into unpredictable (chaotic) behaviour, with players dithering a huge number of times between different strategies. At a further critical parameter the dynamics becomes periodic again and both players aim to play one ahead of the other. We study the dynamics of a two player continuous time bimatrix fictitious play with the dynamics of a one-parameter family of $3 \times 3$ games that includes a well-known example of Shapley's as a special case. In this paper we adopt a geometric (dynamical systems) approach and study the bifurcations of simple periodic orbits. Here we concentrate on the periodic behaviour, while in a sequel we shall describe the chaotic behaviour.
Harris Caroline
Sparrow C.
Strien Sebastian van
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