Carlos Alós-Ferrer is Professor of Microeconomics at the University of Konstanz (Germany). His research concentrates on Game Theory and Decision Theory. His other website is at http://www.uni-konstanz.de/micro
Learning in Games
The Asset Market Game (with Ana B. Ania), Journal of Mathematical Economics (2005)
This paper models asset markets as a game where assets pay according to an arbitrary...
The Evolutionary Stability of Perfectly Competitive Behavior (with Ana B. Ania), Economic Theory (2005)
(Also known as The Evolutionary Logic of Feeling Small) In a (generalized) symmetric aggregative game,...
Cournot vs. Walras in Dynamic Oligopolies with Memory, International Journal of Industrial Organization (2004)
This paper explores the impact of memory in Cournot oligopolies where firms learn through imitation...
Finite Population Dynamics and Mixed Equilibria, International Game Theory Review (2003)
This paper examines the stability of mixed-strategy Nash equilibria of symmetric games, viewed as population...
An Evolutionary Model of Bertrand Oligopoly (with Ana B. Ania and Klaus R. Schenk-Hoppé), Games and Economic Behavior (2000)
This paper presents an evolutionary model of Bertrand competition in a market for a homogeneous...
Extensive Form Games
Trees and Extensive Forms (with Klaus Ritzberger), Journal of Economic Theory (2008)
This paper addresses the question of what it takes to obtain a well-defined extensive form...
Some Remarks on Pseudotrees (with Klaus Ritzberger), Order (2005)
This paper provides new results on pseudotrees. First, it is shown that pseudotrees are precisely...
Trees and Decisions (with Klaus Ritzberger), Economic Theory (2005)
The traditional model of sequential decision making, for instance in extensive form games, is a...
Learning in Networks
Contagion and Efficiency (with Simon Weidenholzer), Journal of Economic Theory (2008)
We consider a population of agents, either finite or countably infinite, located on an arbitrary...
Partial Bandwagon Effects and Local Interactions (with Simon Weidenholzer), Games and Economic Behavior (2007)
We consider partial bandwagon properties in the context of coordination games to capture the idea...
Imitation, Local Interactions and Efficiency (with Simon Weidenholzer), Economics Letters (2006)
We consider a model of evolution and local interactions in a circular city as in...
Mathematical Economics
Random Matching of Several Infinite Populations, Annals of Operations Research (2002)
Random matching models with infinite populations present formal difficulties due to the lack of a...
Dynamical Systems with a Continuum of Randomly Matched Agents, Journal of Economic Theory (1999)
Many models postulate a continuum of agents of finitely many different types who are repeatedly...
Game Theory (General)
Nash Equilibria for Non-Binary Choice Rules (with José Carlos R. Alcantud), International Journal of Game Theory (2007)
(Also known as Choice-Nash Equilibria) We prove the existence of equilibria in games with players...
The Discretization of Continuum Strategy Spaces, International Game Theory Review (2006)
When the strategy set of a game is a continuum, its discretization may not conserve...
Local Equilibria in Economic Games (with Ana B. Ania), Economics Letters (2001)
We study solution concepts for economic games that are resistant to local deviations. Strategy spaces...
Social Choice
A Simple Characterization of Approval Voting, Social Choice and Welfare (2006)
This note provides a characterization of Approval Voting as the only ballot aggregation function satisfying...