novices learning from experienced, a particular form of probabilistic imitation is selected. Novices should imitate any …

beaten by any strategy. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for imitation to be unbeatable in the sense that there … is no strategy that can exploit imitation as a money pump. In particular, imitation is subject to a money pump if and … condition for imitation not being subject to a money pump is that the relative payoff game is a generalized ordinal potential …

games when two simplebehavior rules coexist in the population, imitation and myopic optimization.We assume that myopic …

be imitative in round two but can be imitative starting round three. A simple linear imitation rule even causes all to … learn the best action in the long run. The informational setting is varied to further investigate the role of imitation …