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A Difficulty in Characterising Mixed Nash Equilibria in a Strategic Market Game

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  • Bailey, Ralph W.

    (Department of Economics, University of Birmingham)

  • Kozlovskaya, Maria

    (Economics, Finance and Entrepreneurship Department, Aston Business School)

  • Ray, Indrajit

    (Cardiff Business School)

Abstract

We analyse the conditions for a strategy profile to be an equilibrium in a specific buy and sell strategic market game, with two goods, using best responses of a player against random bids from the opponents. The difficulty in characterising mixed Nash equilbria is that the expected utility is not quasiconcave in strategies. We still prove that any mixed strategy Nash equilibrium profile in which every player faces only two random bids is trivial, that is, is a convex combination of some pure strategy Nash equilibria; moreover, we show that the outcome (the price and the allocations) is deterministic in such an equilibrium.

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  • Bailey, Ralph W. & Kozlovskaya, Maria & Ray, Indrajit, 2023. "A Difficulty in Characterising Mixed Nash Equilibria in a Strategic Market Game," CRETA Online Discussion Paper Series 82, Centre for Research in Economic Theory and its Applications CRETA.
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    Mixed bids ; Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium ; strategic market games JEL codes: C72;
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    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games

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