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A note on the existence of Berge and Berge-Nash equilibria

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  • Larbani, Moussa
  • Nessah, Rabia

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This paper deals with the problem of existence of Berge and Berge-Nash equilibria. Abalo and Kostreva have proved existence theorems of Berge and Berge-Nash equilibria for S-equi-well-posed and (S, [sigma])-equi-well-posed games, namely, Theorems 3.2-3.3 [Abalo, K.Y., Kostreva, M.M., 1996. Fixed Points, Nash Games and their Organization. Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis 8, 205-215.]. In this paper we show that the assumptions of these theorems are actually not sufficient for the existence of Berge equilibrium. We then propose a new version of these theorems.

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  • Larbani, Moussa & Nessah, Rabia, 2008. "A note on the existence of Berge and Berge-Nash equilibria," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 55(2), pages 258-271, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:matsoc:v:55:y:2008:i:2:p:258-271
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    1. R. Nessah & M. Larbani & T. Tazdait, 2007. "A note on Berge equilibrium," Post-Print hal-00716706, HAL.
    2. Tarik Tazdaït & Moussa Larbani & Rabia Nessah, 2007. "On Berge Equilibrium," CIRED Working Papers halshs-00271452, HAL.
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