An Algorithmic Approach toward the Tracing Procedure for Bi-matrix Games

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 130-145

  Van Den Elzen, Antoon ^a   Talman, Dolf ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Tracing procedure; equilibrium selection; complementary pivoting; homotopy; computation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001116149     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/game.1998.0688     Document Type: Article

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