Article ID: | iaor2013651 |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 231 |
End Page Number: | 240 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2013 |
Journal: | Optimization Letters |
Authors: | Okaie Yutaka, Nakano Tadashi |
Keywords: | game theory, graphs |
In this letter, we consider a non‐cooperative resource pricing game on a graph where sellers (i.e., players) set the prices for their own resources to maximize the payoffs and buyers migrate to seek the least expensive resources. We present a model for the resource pricing game and prove the existence of Nash equilibria on regular and hierarchical graphs. The results obtained are applicable to the study of market economies, social networks and computer networks where individuals trade resources in a spatially extended environment.