Abstract
Peleg (1969) showed that it is possible for a game with countably many players and finitely many pure strategies to have no Nash equilibrium. In his example not only Nash, but even perfect ϵ-equilibrium fails to exist. However, the example is based on tail utility functions, and these have infinitely many discontinuity points. I demonstrate non-existence of perfect ϵ-equilibrium under a milder form of discontinuity: I construct a game with countably many players, finitely many pure strategies and no perfect ϵ-equilibrium, in which one player has a utility function with a single discontinuity point, and the utility of every other player is not only continuous, but depends on finitely many coordinates.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 109267 |
Journal | Economics Letters |
Volume | 193 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
Keywords
- Approximate equilibrium
- Discontinuous games
- Equilibrium non-existence
- Infinite games
- Tail events
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Finance
- Economics and Econometrics