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Type Working Paper
Scope Contributions to practice
Title Finding all pure-strategy equilibria in games with continuous strategies
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Authors
  • Kenneth Judd
  • Philipp Johannes Renner
  • Karl Schmedders
Language
  • English
Institution Swiss Finance Institute
Series Name Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper
Number 10-45
Number of Pages 49
Date 2011
Abstract Text Static and dynamic games are important tools for the analysis of strategic interactions among economic agents and have found many applications in economics. In many games equilibria can be described as solutions of polynomial equations. In this paper we describe state-of-the-art techniques for finding all solutions of polynomial systems of equations and illustrate these techniques by computing all equilibria of both static and dynamic games with continuous strategies. We compute the equilibrium manifold for a Bertrand pricing game in which the number of equilibria changes with the market size. Moreover, we apply these techniques to two stochastic dynamic games of industry competition and check for equilibrium uniqueness.
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Additional Information Presented at ICE Workshop 2011, Chicago