On the generic finiteness of equilibrium outcome distributions in game forms

Econometrica

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 455-471

  Govindan, Srihari ^a   McLennan, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Game forms; Generic finiteness; Nash equilibrium; Semi algebraic geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347156506     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0262.00198     Document Type: Article

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