Comments on purification in continuum games

International Journal of Game Theory

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-92

  Balder, Erik J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Equilibrium distribution; Games with a continuum of players; Games with incomplete information; Games with private information; Large games; Lyapunov's theorem; Nash equilibrium; Purification; Young measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449163035     PISSN: 00207276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00182-007-0094-1     Document Type: Article

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