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Парахоняк Алексей Никитич (ГУ-ВШЭ) - "Targeted Competition: Choosing Your Enemies in Multiplayer Games"

Краткая аннотация доклада:

We consider a dynamic (differential) game with three players competing against each other. During each period, each player can allocate his resources so as to compete with particular rivals -- we call such competition targeted. We show that if the players are myopic, the weaker players eventually lose the game to their strongest rival. If instead the players are sufficiently non-myopic, then each player concentrates more on fighting his strongest opponent. Consequently, the weaker players grow stronger, the strongest player grows weaker, and eventually, all of the players converge and stay in the game. Targeted competition approach can be used in a wide variety of cases: in competition between firms, competition between political parties, warfare, and other scenarios.

 Key Words: targeted competition, dynamic oligopolies, differential games.