Bill Sandholm's Research

CV (This version: 8/7/08)

Book: Population Games and Evolutionary Dynamics

Software: Dynamo – Phase Diagrams for Evolutionary Dynamics

Working Papers and Presentations

• "Decompositions and Potentials for Normal Form Games." This version: 7/27/08.
• "Large Population Potential Games." This version: 7/27/08.
• "Local Stability under Evolutionary Game Dynamics". This version: 9/30/08.
• "Logit Evolution in Potential Games: Reversibility, Rates of Convergence, Large Deviations, and Equilibrium Selection" (with Michel Benaïm). Presentation, 9/21/07.
• "Pairwise Comparison Dynamics and Evolutionary Foundations for Nash Equilibrium". This version: 9/6/08.
• "A Probabilistic Characterization of Integrability for Game Dynamics". Under revision - available upon request.
• "Schelling Redux: An Evolutionary Dynamic Model of Residential Segregation" (with Emin Dokumaci). This version: 6/19/07.
• "Stable Games and their Dynamics" (with Josef Hofbauer). This version: 3/12/08.
• "Stochastic Evolution with Perturbed Payoffs and Rapid Play" (with Emin Dokumaci). This version: 7/30/08.
• "Survival of Dominated Strategies under Evolutionary Dynamics" (with Josef Hofbauer). This version: 9/8/08.

Journal Articles

• "The Projection Dynamic and the Geometry of Population Games" (with Ratul Lahkar). Forthcoming, Games and Economic Behavior.
• "The Projection Dynamic and the Replicator Dynamic" (with Emin Dokumaci and Ratul Lahkar). Forthcoming, Games and Economic Behavior.
• "Robust Permanence and Impermanence for Stochastic Replicator Dynamics" (with Michel Benaïm and Josef Hofbauer). Journal of Biological Dynamics 2 (2008), 180-195.
• "Cultural Integration and Its Discontents" (with Timur Kuran). Review of Economic Studies 75 (2008), 201-228.
• "Evolution in Bayesian Games II: Stability of Purified Equilibrium." Journal of Economic Theory 136 (2007), 641-667.
• "Simple Formulas for Stationary Distributions and Stochastically Stable States." Games and Economic Behavior 59 (2007), 154-162.
• "Evolution in Games with Randomly Disturbed Payoffs" (with Josef Hofbauer). Journal of Economic Theory 132 (2007), 47-69.
• "Pigouvian Pricing and Stochastic Evolutionary Implementation." Journal of Economic Theory 132 (2007), 367-382.
• "Excess Payoff Dynamics and Other Well-Behaved Evolutionary Dynamics." Journal of Economic Theory 124 (2005), 149-170.
• "Evolution in Bayesian Games I: Theory" (with Jeff Ely), Games and Economic Behavior 53 (2005), 83-109.
• "Negative Externalities and Evolutionary Implementation." Review of Economic Studies 72 (2005), 885-915.
• "Evolution and Equilibrium under Inexact Information." Games and Economic Behavior 44 (2003), 343-378.
• "On the Global Convergence of Stochastic Fictitious Play." (with Josef Hofbauer), Econometrica 70 (2002), 2265-2294.
• "Evolutionary Implementation and Congestion Pricing." Review of Economic Studies 69 (2002), 667-689.
• "Almost Global Convergence to p-Dominant Equilibrium." International Journal of Game Theory 30 (2001), 107-116.
• "Potential Games with Continuous Player Sets," Journal of Economic Theory 97 (2001), 81-108.
• "Preference Evolution, Two-Speed Dynamics, and Rapid Social Change," Review of Economic Dynamics 4 (2001), 637-679.
• "Evolution, Population Growth, and History Dependence," (with Ady Pauzner), Games and Economic Behavior 22 (1998), 84-120.
• "History Independent Prediction in Evolutionary Game Theory," Rationality and Society 10 (1998), 303-326.
• "Simple and Clever Decision Rules in a Model of Evolution," Economics Letters 61 (1998), 165-170.

Articles in Edited Volumes

• "Deterministic Evolutionary Dynamics". The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, S. N. Durlauf and L. E. Blume, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
• "Learning and Evolution in Games: An Overview". The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, S. N. Durlauf and L. E. Blume, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
• "Evolutionary Game Theory". Prepared for the Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, Springer.

Book Reviews

• "Evolutionary Dynamics and Extensive Form Games" by Ross Cressman. International Review of Economics and Finance 15 (2006), 136-140.
• "Strategic Learning and its Limits" by H. Peyton Young. Games and Economic Behavior 63 (2008), 417-420.

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