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Limit Games and Limit Equilibria

In: A Long-Run Collaboration On Long-Run Games

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  • DREW FUDENBERG

    (University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA)

  • DAVID LEVINE

    (University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA)

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We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for equilibria of a game to arise as limits of ε-equilibria of games with smaller strategy spaces. As the smaller games are frequently more tractable, our result facilitates the characterization of the set of equilibria.

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  • Drew Fudenberg & David Levine, 2008. "Limit Games and Limit Equilibria," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Drew Fudenberg & David K Levine (ed.), A Long-Run Collaboration On Long-Run Games, chapter 2, pages 21-39, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    Long-Run Players; Limit Games; Robustness; Equilibrium; Reputation Effects; Repeated Games;
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