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Ordinality in non cooperative games

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  • Jean-François Mertens

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We first analyse what a conceptual definition of ordinality for non cooperative games should be. The resulting concept is highly abstract and apparently unmanageable. Nevertheless we obtain in a second part a very simple and fully operational characterization. In the last part, this is used to check the ordinality of a number of concepts that have been proposed in the literature. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2004

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  • Jean-François Mertens, 2004. "Ordinality in non cooperative games," International Journal of Game Theory, Springer;Game Theory Society, vol. 32(3), pages 387-430, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:jogath:v:32:y:2004:i:3:p:387-430
    DOI: 10.1007/s001820400166
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