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Follow the Leader: Local Interactions with Influence Neighborhoods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Peter Vanderschraaf  and
J. McKenzie Alexander
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Abstract

We introduce a dynamic model for evolutionary games played on a network where strategy changes are correlated according to degree of influence between players. Unlike the notion of stochastic stability (Foster and Young, 1990), which assumes mutations are stochastically independent and identically distributed, our framework allows for the possibility that agents correlate their strategies with the strategies of those they trust, or those who have influence over them. We show that the dynamical properties of evolutionary games, where such influence neighborhoods appear, differ dramatically from those where all mutations are stochastically independent, and establish some elementary convergence results relevant for the evolution of social institutions.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 72 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 86 - 113
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We would like to thank Brian Skyrms, Cristina Bicchieri, and two anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions.

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