Nash equilibria of games with increasing best replies

Filippo Calciano ()

No 2009082, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: The intuitive idea of two activities being complements, for example tea and lemon, is that increasing the level of one makes somehow desirable to increase the level of the other (Samuelson, 1974). Hence complementarity, in its very nature, is a sensitivity property of the set of solutions to an optimization problem. In the context of games, complementarity should then be captured by properties of the joint best reply. We introduce notions of increasingness for the joint best reply which capture properly this intuitive idea of complementarity among players’ strategies. We show, by generalizing the fixpoint theorems of Veinott (1992) and Zhou (1994), that the Nash sets of our games are nonempty complete lattices. Hence we extend the class of games with strategic complementarities

Keywords: strategic complementarity; supermodular games; quasisupermodular games; fixpoint theorem; Nash equilibria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C60 C70 C72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-12-01
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://sites.uclouvain.be/core/publications/coredp/coredp2009.html (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cor:louvco:2009082

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) Voie du Roman Pays 34, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Alain GILLIS ().