Economics Letters

Noisy Equilibrium Selection in Coordination Games

Journal Article
Reference
Carlsson, Hans and Mattias Ganslandt (1998). “Noisy Equilibrium Selection in Coordination Games”. Economics Letters 60(1), 23–34. doi.org/10.1016/S0165-1765(98)00076-7

Authors
Hans Carlsson, Mattias Ganslandt

By perturbing symmetric coordination games à la Bryant [Bryant, J., 1983. Quarterly Journal of Economics 98, 525–528] we derive unique solutions, the noise-proof equilibria. Our results agree with the experimental findings in Van Huyck et al. [Van Huyck, J.B., R.C. Battalio and R.O. Beil, 1990. American Economic Review 80, 234–248] and have an interesting connection with the notion of potential. We also briefly discuss median games.