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Nash equilibria of games with generalized complementarities

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To generalize complementarities for games, we introduce some conditions weaker than quasisupermodularity and the single crossing property. We prove that the Nash equilibria of a game satisfying these conditions form a nonempty complete lattice. This is a purely order-theoretic generalization of Zhou's theorem.

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  • Lu Yu, 2024. "Nash equilibria of games with generalized complementarities," Papers 2407.00636, arXiv.org.
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