Optimal freeware quality in the presence of network externalities: an evolutionary game theoretical approach

New software products often face difficulty in achieving market penetration. A potential remedy is to offer a freeware version of the software to encourage initial adoption and establish a larger user base for the software, thereby increasing the commercial version's value to adopters in future periods. However, to avoid complete cannibalization of the commercial version, the freeware version's quality must be sufficiently low and the price of the commercial version must not be too high. We model the effect of these two decision variables, price and freeware quality, on the adoption of software using static and evolutionary game theory.     

企业竞合行为的演化博弈分析--以我国创意产业为例

近年来,创意产业不仅成为学界关注的热点,也成为政府和企业专注与投资的特点。企业之间竞合行为将直接决定其竞争力,进而影响我国创意产业竞争力与发展方向。本文基于文化创意产业集群内企业间的竞合行为,运用演化博弈的理论方法,建立了核心企业之间的横向对称博弈及核心企业与其相邻下游企业之间的纵向非对称博弈的数理模型,分析了其演变的动态过程。研究结果表明,该系统的演化方向与双方博弈的支付矩阵相关,博弈结果受到合作收益、初始合作成本、独立创新能力、合作成功率、以及双方初始状态等因素的影响,最后给出了相关建议,为整合我国文化产业集群提供了理论依据。     

Dynamically stable sets in infinite strategy spaces

Evolutionary game theory has largely focused on finite games. Dynamic stability is harder to attain in infinite strategy spaces; Bomze [Bomze, I., 1990. Dynamical aspects of evolutionary stability. Monatsh. Math. 110, 189–206] and Oechssler and Riedel [Oechssler, J., Riedel, F., 2001. Evolutionary dynamics on infinite strategy spaces. Econ. Theory 17, 141–162] provide conditions for the stability of rest points under the replicator dynamics. Here, conditions are given for the stability of sets of strategies under this process.     

Evolutionary dynamics on infinite strategy spaces

Summary. The study of evolutionary dynamics was so far mainly restricted to finite strategy spaces. In this paper we show that this unsatisfying restriction is unnecessary. We specify a simple condition under which the continuous time replicator dynamics are well defined for the case of infinite strategy spaces. Furthermore, we provide new conditions for the stability of rest points and show that even strict equilibria may be unstable. Finally, we apply this general theory to a number of applications like the Nash demand game, the War of Attrition, linear-quadratic games, the harvest preemption game, and games with mixed strategies. Received: June 25, 1999; revised version: January 31, 2000     

反馈型交易策略与资产价格演化

本文研究投资者的反馈型交易策略和学习机制是如何影响资产价格演化的.首先,运用Markov链方法刻画了反馈型投资者的信念更新机制;其次,运用演化博弈模型分析了正反馈及负反馈这两种交易策略在市场中的演化;最后,构建了市场由基本面投资者和反馈型投资者构成的风险资产价格演化模型,分析了基本面投资者的信息收集成本对其套利行为的影响.仿真结果表明,当基本面投资者的信息收集成本较大时,其套利行为受到限制,持续预期交易者在与基本面投资者的博弈中生存下来,并逐渐将基本面投资者和反转预期交易者赶出市场,使得资产价格持续偏离基本价值,持续预期交易者的财富逐渐增加,而基本面投资者的财富急剧减少.本文提出的模型为泡沫及反泡沫产生的原因提供了一种可能的解释,同时表明,市场监管部门应尽力减小投资者的信息收集成本,从而增强市场的有效性.     

On economic applications of evolutionary game theory

Evolutionary games have considerable unrealized potential for modeling substantive economic issues. They promise richer predictions than orthodox game models but often require more extensive specifications. This paper exposits the specification of evolutionary game models and classifies the possible asymptotic behavior for one and two dimensional models.     

Out-of-equilibrium price dynamics

A trading-post organization of exchange is shown to determine an out-of-equilibrium price dynamics. The unique equilibrium of quasi-linear economies (defined by log-linear utility functions) is stable for the discrete time version of the dynamics. Equilibria that are stable for the continuous time version include those that satisfy the gross-substitutability property, the no-trade equilibria and, more generally, those for which trade intensity is relatively small. In addition, the set of stable equilibria is path-connected when endowments are allowed to vary without sign restrictions.      

Diversity, persistence and chaos in consumption patterns

In this paper we present a model from which discretionary consumption dynamics can be analyzed as global properties emerging from the endogenous transformation of a society inhabited by boundedly rational interactive consumers. By considering local and global interactions among consumers, we show that behavioral diversity plays a central role in the evolution of consumption patterns. The analysis of the model reveals the existence of a regime characterized by the persistence of different social standards, and a time evolution of the social distribution of behavioral patterns towards a heteroclinic cycle. In some cases the evolution seems to be chaotic, generating unpredictable, erratic dynamics of the aggregate social indices (average or social propensity for discretionary consumption).      

Artificial worlds and economics,part I

In this and a companion paper (Lane 1993), I describe a class of models, called artificial worlds (AWs), that are designed to give insight into a process called emergent hierarchical organization (EHO). This paper introduces the ideas of EHO and AWs and discusses some of the interferential problems involved in trying to learn about EHO by constructing and studying the properties of AWs. It concludes by introducing two abstract AWs that address important general problems in EHO: the relation between structure and function, and the dynamics of evolutionary processes. The companion paper will discuss several AWs expressly designed to model particular economic phenomena.     

制造竞争优先权的国际差异与比较

竞争优先权是制造战略研究的核心内容,它随着企业发展与竞争环境的不断变化而逐步演进和变化。为验证这一假设,以IMSS这一制造战略国际数据库17个国家558家企业的数据为基础,利用统计方法进行了分析。研究发现经济发展程度较低的国家更加重视价格、质量等基本竞争要素,同时在所有竞争优先权中,质量对几乎所有国家而言都有最高的重要性。     

替代产品投放策略与竞争性反应研究

本文首先介绍了产品替代理论，然后回顾了新产品投放及竞争者的反应方面的相关理论研究，在投放策略与反应之间引入信号的概念：根据已有文献研究总结得出企业感知信号的不同类型与其做出竞争性反应的关系。     

Environmental protection mechanisms and technological dynamics

The paper proposes a new financial mechanism that could be implemented to protect the environment of a tourist region. For this purpose, we investigate the potential consequences of two financial activities, issued by the local government (G) of a region R, which work like contracts between G and, respectively, visitors of R and firms operating in R. According to these contracts, agents who decide to visit R (firms that decide to adopt an environmental friendly technology) have to buy an option that entitle them to get a partial or total reimbursement if environmental quality in R turns out to be sufficiently low (high), namely, below (above) a given predetermined threshold level.     

Copyright enforcement and product quality signaling in markets for computer software

This paper considers the impact of consumer copying of computer software when there is asymmetric information about product quality. In particular, the paper: (1) examines how the presence of copying can enhance the feasibility of production of high quality software when quality is a priori unknown to consumers and (2) explores the novel possibility that a software producer can signal product quality via its copyright enforcement decision. Under certain conditions, when there is asymmetric information about product quality, providers of high quality software can be made strictly better off with less than full copyright enforcement; in some cases, they do not produce at all in the absence of copying.     

实施旅游产品创新战略的研究

本文主要研究在我国旅游业快速发展，国内旅游需求日益增强的情况下，旅游产品创新对改善我国旅游环境，引导旅游者消费，促进旅游业可持续发展等方面所产生的重要影响；提出了旅游经营者在知识经济时代进行旅游产品创新时应该坚持的战略，积极开发时涉及的领域，并对保证旅游产品创新顺利实施的支持系统进行了探讨。