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A bound on the number of Nash equilibria in a coordination game

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  • Shubik, Martin

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We prove that a "nondegenerate" m x m coordination game can have at most 2^{M} - 1 Nash equilibria, where M = min(m,n).
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  • Quint, Thomas & Shubik, Martin, 2002. "A bound on the number of Nash equilibria in a coordination game," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 77(3), pages 323-327, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:77:y:2002:i:3:p:323-327
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