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On the generic strategic stability of Nash equilibria if voting is costly

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Francesco Sinopoli
Giovanna Iannantuoni ()

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We prove that for generic plurality games with positive cost of voting, the number of Nash equilibria is finite. Furthermore all the equilibria are regular, hence stable sets as singletons. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2005

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Volume (Year): 25 (2005)
Issue (Month): 2 (02)
Pages: 477-486
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Keywords: Plurality rule; Regular equilibria; Stable sets.;

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  2. Tasos Kalandrakis, 2006. "Robust Rational Turnout," Wallis Working Papers WP44, University of Rochester - Wallis Institute of Political Economy. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Carlos Pimienta, 2007. "Generic Finiteness of Outcome Distributions for Two Person Game Forms with Three Outcomes," Discussion Papers 2007-20, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales. [Downloadable!]
  4. Carlos Pimienta, 2007. "Generic Determinacy of Nash Equilibrium in Network Formation Games," Discussion Papers 2007-31, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales. [Downloadable!]
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  5. De Sinopoli, F. & Iannantuoni, G., 2005. "On Asymmetric Behaviors if Voting is Costly," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 0521, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. [Downloadable!]
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