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About Two Methods of Computing Bayesian Equilibria

Question I want to compute the Bayesian equilibria for the following Bayesian game: With probability $p$, player 1 would be of type 1.1. With probability $1-p$, player 1 would be of type 1.2. Player ...
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Equilibrium of Perturbed Dollar Auction Game - An Example from Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict by Roger Myerson

I am studying game theory using Myerson's textbook (Chapter 3 - Equilibria of Strategic-Form Games, Section 3.6 - The Decision-Analytic Approach to Games). I have difficulties understanding and ...
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About infinite strategy sets and $\epsilon$-equilibrium from Game Theory: Analysis of Confilct by Roger Myerson

I am studying infinite strategy sets using Myerson's Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict. On Page 143, he defines an $\epsilon$-equilibrium as follows: Definition For any nonnegative number $\epsilon$, ...
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Auction with independent private values - An example from Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict by Roger Myerson

I have difficulties understanding the equilibrium analysis of the following auction game: Suppose that there are $n$ bidders in an auction for a single indivisible object. Each player knows privately ...
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Geometric Interpretation of the Potential Function of a Game

One geometric interpretation of (at least one term of) the potential function I've come across is as the Riemann-approximated area under an individual player's cost as a function of the number of ...
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Rationalizable strategies/ Nash equilibrium

For the question below, how can we solve it generally for every value of θ? As the θ is not discrete, I am not sure how to apply iterated elimination of dominated strategies in this question. And is ...
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Nash Equilibrium with Constraints on Decision Variables

I am trying to solve a two player game with constraints on decision variables. The general structure looks something like this: $$\max_{x_1} f(x_1, x_2)$$ $$\max_{x_2} g(x_1, x_2)$$ subject to $$x_1 + ...
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Perfect Bayesian Equilibium - Application to game with inconsistent beliefs / no common prior

Does the concept of a Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium apply only to incomplete games with a common prior / consistent belief? In both Bonanno's "Game Theory" and Osborne's "A Course in ...
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Equivalence from correlated/communication equilibrium to Nash Equilibrium?

Taking into account the seminal papers of Forges and Imre Bárány, they proove a very strong result that gives an exact connection among the communication and the correlation equilibrium solution ...
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Correlation device that induces a specific transition probability

Taking a look at this paper of Forges and Vida the authors define a correlation device in page $102$, that is a standard probability space $\left(\Omega,\mathcal{B},\mu\right)$, They assume that the ...
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What if Bergemann and Morris setting used mixed (or bbehavioral) actions instead of pure actions as reccomendations?

Once again, I will refer to the setting of Bergemann and Morris (2016) and write here the payoff formula of player $i$ from the perspective of the information designer. The payoff formula is the ...
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Bergemann and Morris information designer and decision rule concept

Taking a look in the paper of Bergemman and Morris in 2016, they refer to the desicion rule as mapping $$\sigma:\Theta\times T\to\Delta(A)$$ The explanation to understand the notion of it is given as ...
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Prove that for every Nash equilibrium $\sigma^*$, the probability distribution $p_{\sigma^*}$ is a correlated equilibrium

This is a classic theorem in game theory, that is left as an excersice in my textbook. Can anybody proove it? I can not thing of anything excpet from the definition of the correlated equilibrium in ...
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Bayes correlated equilibrium of Bergemann and Morris

The paper of Bergemann and Morris proves a theorem based on some foundations about the information sets and their expansions. I am trying to understand theorem one intuition, more precisely I cite the ...
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Providing an example in cooperative - games and coalitions

Here is the paper from chich I previously posted another definition here Definition of a $k-$strong Nash Equilibrium I am trying to construct an example to understand the idea of the following ...
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Definition of a $k-$strong Nash Equilibrium

Consider a game $G=(N, (A^i)_{i\in N}, (g^i)_{i\in N})$, $N=\{1,2,\dots,n\}$, $A=\Pi_{i\in N}A_i$ is the set of actions and $g^i:A\to \mathbb{R}$ is the payoff function. The latter can be extended ...
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Defining the set of strategies, mixed strategies and the simplex set

Suppose that we have a two players game, where $(S^i)_{i=1}^2$ denotes the set of pure strategies for each one. The set of mixed strategies of player $i$ is denoted by $\Sigma^i=\Delta(S^i)$ while $\...
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Nash in demand functions!

I am searching for some types of games that are played in linear demand functions. Altough I hear that there is a vast literatrure for games that are played in the intercept or the slope of the demand ...
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How can I build a fixed point theorem argument in pure strategies?

To begin with, I am recalling the Banach Fixed Point Theorem. Let $(X,d)$ be a non-empty complete metric space with a contraction mapping $T:X\to X$. Then $T$ admits a unique fixed-point $x^*$ in $X$ ...
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How to find mixed optimal strategies in this zero-sum game?

I'm trying to solve this problem from last year final exam in game theory: Consider the zero-sum game $G=(X, Y, g)$ where $X=Y=[0,1]$, and $$\forall (x,y) \in X \times Y: g(x, y)=\max \{x(1-2 y), y(1-...
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Existence of symmetric trembling hand perfect equilibria

Consider symmetric and finite game. By Nash (1950), the game must have at least one symmetric equilibrium (proof). Also, it must have at least one trembling hand perfect equilibrium (proof). ...
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Proving the existence of Nash Equilibrium using alternate approaches

Most of the standard books/papers/reading materials prove/state the existence of a Nash Equilibrium by appealing to Sperner's Lemma, or to Brouwer's/Kakutani's FPT. However, I've recently come to know ...
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Deviating from Cournot-Nash

Suppose player $1$ and $2$ are playing a simultaneous move game where with continuous strategies $x_1$ and $x_2$. The Cournot equilibrium is $x_1^*,x_2^*$. The following diagram purports to show that ...