Impacts of subsidized security on stability and total social costs of equilibrium solutions in an N-player game with errors

Engineering Economist

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 131-149

  Zhuang, Jun ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED RATIONALITY; EQUILIBRIUM SOLUTIONS; SOCIAL COST; SOCIAL WELFARE;

ERRORS;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 77953177089     PISSN: 0013791X     EISSN: 15472701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00137911003775107     Document Type: Article

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