On equilibrium refinements in supermodular games

نویسندگان

  • Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau
  • Richard P. McLean
چکیده

We show that supermodular games satisfying sequential better-reply security possess a pure strategy perfect equilibrium and a strategically stable set of pure strategy equilibria. We illustrate that in continuous supermodular games, perfect equilibria may contain weakly dominated actions. Moreover, in discontinuous supermodular games satisfying sequential better-reply security, perfect equilibria may involve play of actions in the interior of the set of weakly dominated actions. We show that supermodular games satisfying sequential better-reply security possess pure strategy perfect equilibria outside the interior of the set of weakly dominated action profiles.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Int. J. Game Theory

دوره 44  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015