On the foundation of stability

Economic Theory

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 185-201

  Luo, Xiao ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Common knowledge; Game theory; Rationality; Stable sets

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349223316     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-008-0363-7     Document Type: Article

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