Contemporaneous perfect epsilon-equilibria

被引:18
作者
Mailath, GJ [1 ]
Postlewaite, A
Samuelson, L
机构
[1] Univ Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[2] Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
epsilon equilibrium; ex ante payoff; multistage game; subgame perfect equilibrium;
D O I
10.1016/j.geb.2005.05.002
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We examine contemporaneous perfect epsilon-equilibria, in which a player's actions after every history, evaluated at the point of deviation from the equilibrium, must be within epsilon of a best response. This concept implies, but is stronger than, Radner's ex ante perfect epsilon-equilibrium. A strategy profile is a contemporaneous perfect epsilon-equilibrium of a game if it is a subgame perfect equilibrium in a perturbed game with nearly the same payoffs, with the converse holding for pure equilibria. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:126 / 140
页数:15
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