Candidate quality in a Downsian model with a continuous policy space

DOI10.1016/j.geb.2011.12.008zbMath1242.91151OpenAlexW1796613186MaRDI QIDQ423710

Enriqueta Aragonès, Dimitrios Xefteris

Publication date: 4 June 2012

Published in: Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2011.12.008

zbMATH Keywords

spatial competitioncandidate qualitymixed stategies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special types of economic equilibria (91B52) 2-person games (91A05) Voting theory (91B12) Economic models of real-world systems (e.g., electricity markets, etc.) (91B74) Spatial models in sociology (91D25) Spatial models in economics (91B72)

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• On the nature of equilibria in a Downsian model with candidate valence
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