Inseparables: exact potentials and addition

Nikolai Kukushkin ()

Economics Bulletin, 2017, vol. 37, issue 2, 1176-1181

Abstract: In both universal classes of exact potential games described in the existing literature, congestion games and games with structured utilities, the players sum up their common local utilities. This paper shows that no other method to aggregate local utilities could guarantee the existence of an exact potential.

Keywords: Potential game; Congestion game; Game with structured utilities; Additive aggregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-06-05
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