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p-best response set and the robustness of equilibria to incomplete information

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  • Olivier Tercieux

    (PJSE - Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

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In this paper, we use p-best response sets--a set-valued extension of p-dominance--in order to provide a new sufficient condition for the robustness of equilibria to incomplete information.

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  • Olivier Tercieux, 2006. "p-best response set and the robustness of equilibria to incomplete information," Post-Print halshs-00754138, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00754138
    DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2005.08.004
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