Pure-strategy Nash equilibria in nonatomic games with infinite-dimensional action spaces

Economic Theory

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 161-182

  Sun, Xiang ^a   Zhang, Yongchao ^b,c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Infinite dimensional action space; Nonatomic game; Pure strategy Nash equilibrium; Saturated probability space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890325838     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-013-0795-6     Document Type: Article

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