equilibrium: Nash Optimal Party Positions

In nopp: Nash Optimal Party Positions

Description

Nash Optimal Party Positions

Usage

equilibrium(start, model, data, tolerance = 1e-05, max.iter = 100, 
coal = 0, alpha = 0, margin = NULL, fixed = NULL, gamma = 0, 
boot = 0, MC = 0, self.var = "self", prox.var="prox", 
position=NULL, votes=NULL, quadratic=TRUE)

Arguments

start	initial party positions. Numerical vector. Optional.
model	the mlogit model analysis
data	the data set
tolerance	tolerance in the convergence of Nash equilibrium. Default 1e-5
max.iter	max iteration to convergence in Nash equilibrium. Default 100
coal	a list specificing electoral coalitions. See Details.
alpha	the weight of coalition vote-share in party utility function. Default = 0. See Details.
margin	a list specifing the vote share margin to be maximized of a party/coalition against other party/coalition. See Details.
fixed	a list of fixed party positions. See Details.
gamma	the weight among nash and fixed arty position. Default=0. See Details.
boot	number of boostrap replications. See Details.
MC	number of Monte Carlo replications. See Details.
self.var	character: name of self-placement of respondent. See Details.
prox.var	character: name of party-placement variable. See Details.
position	a named list: of perceived position of parties. See Details.
votes	a named list: of actual vote share at election. See Details.
quadratic	a logical value: if FALSE the linear utility function is used to calculate the proximity. See Details.

Details

See vignette.

Value

an object of class nash.eq

Note

See the vignette for detailed explanations and other working examples.

Author(s)

Luigi Curini, Stefano M. Iacus

References

Adams, James F., Samuel Merrill III, and Bernard Grofman (2005). A Unified Theory of Party Competition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Merrill, Samuel III, and James Adams (2001), Computing Nash Equilibria in Probabilistic, Multiparty Spatial Models with Nonpolicy Components, Political Analysis, 9, 347–61

See Also

See Also as plot.nash.eq

Examples

## Not run: 
data(italy2006)

str(italy2006)
italy2006[1:2,1:14]

election <- mlogit.data(italy2006 , shape="wide", choice="vote", 
varying=c(5:14), sep="_")
str(election)

m <- mlogit(vote~prox+partyID | gov_perf+sex+age+education, 
election, reflevel = "UL")
summary(m)

true.pos <- list(FI=7.59, UL=3.50, RC=1.95, AN=8.08, UDC=5.66)
true.votes <- list(FI=.24, UL=.40, RC=.10, AN=.18, UDC=.08)
# model 1: comparison against true votes and party positions
nash.eq <- equilibrium(model=m, data=election, pos=true.pos, 
 votes=true.votes)
nash.eq

par(mfrow=c(3,1))
plot(nash.eq)
par(mfrow=c(1,1))

# model 2: colation behaviours
coal1 <- list(FI=1, UL=2, RC=2, AN=1, UDC=1)
alpha1 <- list(FI=0.5, UL=0.5, RC=0.5, AN=0.5, UDC=0.5)
nash.eq <- equilibrium(model=m, data=election, coal=coal1, 
 alpha=alpha1)
nash.eq

# model 3: colation behaviours
coal1 <- list(FI=1, UL=2, RC=2, AN=1, UDC=1)
alpha1 <- list(FI=0.7, UL=0.8, RC=0.1, AN=0.5, UDC=0.9)
nash.eq <- equilibrium(model=m, data=election, coal=coal1, 
 alpha=alpha1)
nash.eq

# model 4: rivals tends to separate each other
nash.eq <- equilibrium(model=m, data=election, margin=list(FI="UL", UL="FI"))
nash.eq

# model 5: fixed position averaged with Nash equilibrium solution
nash.eq <- equilibrium(model=m, data=election, fixed=list(RC=1), gamma=0.2)
nash.eq

# model 6: rivals tends to separate each other with 
# fixed position averaged with Nash equilibrium solution
nash.eq <- equilibrium(model=m, data=election,  
margin=list(FI="UL", UL="FI"), fixed=list(RC=1), gamma=0.2)
nash.eq

# model 7: coalition and fixed position averaged with 
# Nash equilibrium solution
coal1 <- list(FI=1, UL=2, RC=2, AN=1, UDC=1)
alpha1 <- list(FI=0.7, UL=0.8, RC=0.5, AN=0.5, UDC=0.5)
nash.eq <- equilibrium(model=m, data=election,  coal=coal1, 
 alpha=alpha1, fixed=list(RC=1), gamma=0.2)
nash.eq

# model 8: Bootstrap analysis
nash.eq <- equilibrium(model=m, data=election, boot=10)
nash.eq

# model 9: Monte Carlo simulation
nash.eq <- equilibrium(model=m, data=election, MC=10)
nash.eq

## End(Not run)

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