Existence and upper hemicontinuity of equilibrium distributions of anonymous games with discontinuous payoffs

Journal of Mathematical Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 305-324

  Rath, Kali P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymous games; Cournot Nash equilibrium distribution (CNED); Hypotopology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030527170     PISSN: 03044068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-4068(95)00748-2     Document Type: Article

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