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Incentive-Compatibility In Large Games

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  • Klaus Nehring

    (Department of Economics, University of California Davis)

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We argue that large games are of analytical interest partly because they can be understood in terms of a unifying condition of incentive-compatibility, strategyproofness. In contrast to finite games, strategy-proofness applies not only to dominantstrategy equilibria, but also to a large class of Nash equilibria and to Bayesian Nash equilibria with independent types. Based on Kolmogorov''s zero-one law, it is also shown that Bayesian Nash equilibria coincide with a class of Nash equilibria in games of incomplete information when there is a countably infinite number of players and types are independent.

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  • Klaus Nehring, 2004. "Incentive-Compatibility In Large Games," Working Papers 155, University of California, Davis, Department of Economics.
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