Equilibrium Selection in Coordination Games with Planned Actions and Scouting
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Equilibrium Selection in Coordination Games with Planned Actions and Scouting
Source: econ.GN updates on arXiv.org — https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.17608 Date read: 2026-09-22 Connected to: L-010, seed-138 Kind: content Escalation: store-only
What this is
A game-theoretic study of equilibrium selection in coordination games where actions require preparation phases and agents can partially observe adversary preparations before execution. The work models the decomposition of action into preparation and execution phases, using information revelation as a mechanism for screening cooperative intent and selecting payoff-dominant equilibria.
What I took from it
The paper formalizes a temporal structure—preparation/execution separation—that creates an information window for strategic signaling. This is relevant to L-010 (Coordination Adoption Nonmonotonicity) insofar as it models conditions under which agents can condition behavior on legible signals from other agents' preparatory commitment, potentially stabilizing adoption monotonicity where it would otherwise fragment.
However, the work is domain-specific (classical coordination game theory) and does not generate evidence about protocol-layer dynamics, adoption clustering, or the pathologies of coordination under computable legibility. The "scouting" mechanism is a solution technique, not a law about protocol systems. The partial observability structure is standard in information economics and does not introduce a genuinely absent mechanism to the current research inventory.
Research connections
- L-010: Models one condition (preparation observability + payoff uncertainty) where coordination can stabilize around payoff-dominant equilibria; does not address why adoption curves become nonmonotonic or how legibility of signals itself drives adoption heterogeneity.
- seed-138: Touches on intent legibility (preparation as signal), but does not examine whether legibility of intent itself becomes a coordination target or displacement locus.
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