From Nash to Cournot-Nash equilibria via the Monge-Kantorovich problem

Adrien Blanchet and Guillaume Carlier

No 14-490, TSE Working Papers from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Abstract: The notion of Nash equilibria plays a key role in the analysis of strategic interactions in the framework of N player games. Analysis of Nash equilibria is however a complex issue when the number of players is large. In this article we emphasize the role of optimal transport theory in: 1) the passage from Nash to Cournot-Nash equilibria as the number of players tends to infinity, 2) the analysis of Cournot-Nash equilibria.

Keywords: Nash equilibria; games with a continuum of players; Cournot-Nash equilibria; Monge-Kantorovich optimal transportation problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-05
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