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Generic determinacy of Nash equilibrium in network-formation games

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Pimienta, Carlos

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This paper proves the generic determinacy of Nash equilibrium in network-formation games: for a generic assignment of utilities to networks, the set of probability distributions on networks induced by Nash equilibria is finite.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Games and Economic Behavior.

Volume (Year): 66 (2009)
Issue (Month): 2 (July)
Pages: 920-927
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Keywords: Networks Generic finiteness Nash equilibrium;

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