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Best-response potential for Hotelling pure location games

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  • Iimura, Takuya
  • von Mouche, Pierre
  • Watanabe, Takahiro

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We revisit two-person one-dimensional pure location games à la Anderson et al. (1992) and show that they admit continuous best-response potential functions (Voorneveld, 2000) if demand is sufficiently elastic (to the extent that the Principle of Minimum Differentiation fails); if demand is not that elastic (or is completely inelastic) they still admit continuous quasi-potential functions (Schipper, 2004). We also show that, even if a continuous best-response potential function exists, a generalized ordinal potential function (Monderer and Shapley, 1996) need not exist.

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  • Iimura, Takuya & von Mouche, Pierre & Watanabe, Takahiro, 2017. "Best-response potential for Hotelling pure location games," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 160(C), pages 73-77.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:160:y:2017:i:c:p:73-77
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.08.025
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    Keywords

    Symmetric games; Location games; Best-response potential games; Pure Nash equilibrium existence;
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    JEL classification:

    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games

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