Two simple proofs of the feasibility of the linear tracing procedure

Economic Theory

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 485-490

  Herings, P Jean Jacques ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Browder's fixed point theorem; Equilibrium selection; Non cooperative game theory; Tracing procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034398320     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001990050024     Document Type: Article

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