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Generalized Nash equilibrium without common belief in rationality

Authors :
Andrés Perea
Christian Bach
QE Math. Economics & Game Theory
RS: GSBE Theme Conflict & Cooperation
RS: FSE DACS Mathematics Centre Maastricht
Source :
Economics Letters, 186:108526. Excerpta Medica, Elsevier Science, Economics Letters
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

We provide an existence result for the solution concept of generalized Nash equilibrium, which can be viewed as the direct incomplete information analogue of Nash equilibrium. Intuitively, a tuple consisting of a probability measure for every player on his choices and utility functions is a generalized Nash equilibrium, whenever some mutual optimality property is satisfied. This incomplete information solution concept is then epistemically characterized in a way that common belief in rationality is neither used nor implied. For the special case of complete information, an epistemic characterization of Nash equilibrium ensues as a corollary.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
01651765
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Economics Letters, 186:108526. Excerpta Medica, Elsevier Science, Economics Letters
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....4e77fdf4153d317b471349cffe1ba38e