Pareto refinements of pure-strategy equilibria in games with public and private information

Haifeng Fu, Haomiao Yu*

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Abstract

In a Bayesian framework with public and private information that allows countably many players and infinitely many actions, we provide two sufficient conditions that ensure the existence of Pareto-undominated and socially-maximal pure-strategy Bayes–Nash equilibria under the usual diffuseness and independence assumptions: every player has (i) a countable action set, or (ii) a relatively-diffuse strategy-relevant private information space conditioned on a public signal. Our results rely on the theory of distributions of correspondences with infinite-dimensional range and draw on notions of nowhere equivalence, relative saturation, and saturation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)18-26
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Mathematical Economics
Volume79
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2018

Keywords

  • Bayes–Nash equilibrium (BNE)
  • Nowhere equivalence
  • Pareto-undominated equilibrium
  • Saturation
  • Socially-maximal equilibrium
  • Undominated equilibrium

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