The Existence of Equilibrium in Discontinuous Economic Games, I: Theory

DOI10.2307/2297588zbMath0578.90098OpenAlexW2084378950MaRDI QIDQ3701219

Partha Dasgupta, Eric S. Maskin

Publication date: 1986

Published in: The Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2297588

zbMATH Keywords

infinite gamesdiscontinuous gamessymmetricexistence of Nash equilibriumdiscontinuous payoff functionequilibrium in mixed strategiesstrict lower semi-continuity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncooperative games (91A10) Microeconomic theory (price theory and economic markets) (91B24) General equilibrium theory (91B50)

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