Genericity and markovian behavior in stochastic games

Econometrica

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1231-1248

  Haller, Hans ^a   Lagunoff, Roger ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genericity; Markov perfect equilibria; Stochastic games

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000856120     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0262.00156     Document Type: Article

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