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The Existence of Perfect Equilibrium in Discontinuous Games

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  • Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau

    (Department of Economics, Rutgers University, 75 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA)

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We prove the existence of a trembling-hand perfect equilibrium within a class of compact, metric, and possibly discontinuous games. Our conditions for existence are easily verified in a variety of economic games.

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  • Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau, 2011. "The Existence of Perfect Equilibrium in Discontinuous Games," Games, MDPI, vol. 2(3), pages 1-22, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jgames:v:2:y:2011:i:3:p:235-256:d:13182
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