 Strict pure strategy Nash equilibrium in large finite-player games when the action set is a manifoldGuilherme Carmona and Konrad Podczeck Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2022, vol. 98, issue C Abstract: We present results on the relationship between non-atomic games (in distributional form) and approximating games with a large but finite number of players. Specifically, in a setting with differentiable payoff functions, we show that: (1) The set of all non-atomic games has an open dense subset such that any finite-player game that is sufficiently close (in terms of distributions of players’ characteristics) to a game in this subset and has sufficiently many players has a strict pure strategy Nash equilibrium (Theorem 1), and (2) any equilibrium distribution of any non-atomic game is the limit of equilibrium distributions defined from strict pure strategy Nash equilibria of finite-player games (Theorem 2). This supplements our paper Carmona and Podczeck (2020b), where analogous results are established for the case where the action set of players is a subset of some Euclidean space, with non-empty interior, and payoff functions are such that equilibrium actions are in the interior of the action set. The goal of the present paper is to remove these assumptions. Keywords: Large games; Pure strategy; Nash equilibrium; Generic property; Differentiable manifold (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:mateco:v:98:y:2022:i:c:s0304406821001439 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2021.102580 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Mathematical Economics is currently edited by Atsushi (A.) Kajii More articles in Journal of Mathematical Economics from Elsevier |
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