Mixed Equilibria in Games of Strategic Complements Are Unstable

Posted: 14 Apr 2005

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Federico Echenique

California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Aaron S. Edlin

University of California at Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Abstract

In games with strict strategic complementarities, properly mixed Nash equilibria - equilibria that are not in pure strategies - are unstable for a broad class of learning dynamics.

Keywords: Mmixed-strategy equilibrium, learning, supermodular games, strategic complementarities, equilibrium selection

JEL Classification: C72, C73

Suggested Citation

Echenique, Federico and Edlin, Aaron S., Mixed Equilibria in Games of Strategic Complements Are Unstable. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=691370

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