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Congratulations to Pavlo Prokopovych on the publication in the Journal of Mathematical Economics
8 Травня, 2014
An article by KSE Associate Professor Pavlo Prokopovych (with Nicholas C.Yannelis), “On the existence of mixed strategy Nash equilibria”, has been published by the Journal of Mathematical Economics.
Abstract
The focus of this paper is on developing verifiable sufficient conditions for the existence of a mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for both diagonally transfer continuous and better-reply secure games. First, we show that employing the concept of diagonal transfer continuity in place of better-reply security might be advantageous when the existence of a mixed strategy Nash equilibrium is concerned. Then, we study equilibrium existence in better-reply secure games possessing a payoff secure mixed extension. With the aid of an example, we show that such games need not have mixed strategy Nash equilibria. We provide geometric conditions for the mixed extension of a two-person game that is reciprocally upper semicontinuous and uniformly payoff secure to be better-reply secure.
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