Existence of pure Nash equilibria in discontinuous and non quasiconcave games

Journal article: In a recent but well known paper, Reny has proved the existence of Nash equilibria for compact and quasiconcave games, with possibly discontinuous payoff functions. In this paper, we prove that the quasiconcavity assumption in Reny's theorem can be weakened: we introduce a measure allowing to localize the lack of quasiconcavity, which allows to refine the analysis of equilibrium existence

Author(s)

Philippe Bich

Journal
  • International Journal of Game Theory
Date of publication
  • 2009
Pages
  • 395-410
Version
  • 1
Volume
  • 38