On the existence of strong Nash equilibria Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This paper investigates the existence of strong Nash equilibria (SNE) in continuous and concave games. It is shown that the coalition consistency property introduced in the paper, together with concavity and continuity of payoffs, permits the existence of SNE in games with compact and convex strategy spaces. We also characterize the existence of SNE by providing necessary and sufficient conditions. We suggest an algorithm for computing SNE. The results are illustrated with applications to economies with multilateral environmental externalities and to the static oligopoly model. 2014 Elsevier Inc.

published proceedings

  • Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Nessah, R., & Tian, G.

citation count

  • 24

complete list of authors

  • Nessah, Rabia||Tian, Guoqiang

publication date

  • January 2014