Bramoullé

Publications

Network formation and anti-coordination gamesJournal articleYann Bramoullé, Dunia López-Pintado, Sanjeev Goyal et Fernando Vega-Redondo, International Journal of Game Theory, Volume 33, Issue 1, pp. 1-19, 2004

We study a setting in which individual players choose their partners as well as a mode of behavior in 2×2 anti-coordination games – games where a player’s best response is to choose an action unlike that of her partner. We characterize the equilibrium networks as well as study the effects of network structure on individual behavior. Our analysis shows that both network architecture and induced behavior crucially depend on the value of the cost of forming links. In general, equilibrium configurations are found to be neither unique nor efficient. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2004