A constructive study of Markov equilibria in stochastic games with strategic complementarities

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 815-840

  Balbus, Łukasz ^a   Reffett, Kevin ^b   Woźny, Łukasz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIELONA GÓRA   (Poland)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Constructive methods; Markov equilibria; Stochastic games

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894234159     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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