Identification and estimation of a discrete game of complete information

Econometrica

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1529-1568

  Bajari, Patrick ^a   Hong, Han ^b   Ryan, Stephen P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complete information; Discrete games; Equilibrium selection mechanism; Importance sampling; Mixed strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958593543     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/ECTA5434     Document Type: Article

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