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When Are Nash Equilibria Independent of the Distribution of Agents' Characteristics?
Review of Economic Studies (1985)
  • Ted Bergstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Hal R Varian
Abstract

We present examples of Nash equilibria that do not vary with the distribution of a parameter across agents and then offer a general theorem that characterizes this independence.

Keywords
  • Nash equilibrium,
  • independence
Disciplines
Publication Date
October, 1985
Citation Information
Ted Bergstrom and Hal R Varian. "When Are Nash Equilibria Independent of the Distribution of Agents' Characteristics?" Review of Economic Studies Vol. 52 Iss. 4 (1985)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ted_bergstrom/45/