Satisficing behavior, Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem and Nash Equilibrium

Economic Theory

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-83

  Becker, Robert A ^a   Chakrabarti, Subir K ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Best responses; Better responses; Bimatrix games; Brouwer's fixed point theorem; Cournot duopoly; n person games; Nash equilibrium; Satisficing behavior; Weighted expected utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 11944251820     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-004-0519-z     Document Type: Article

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