TY - JOUR
T1 - Pareto refinements of pure-strategy equilibria in games with public and private information
AU - Fu, Haifeng
AU - Yu, Haomiao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Bayes–Nash equilibrium (BNE)
KW - Nowhere equivalence
KW - Pareto-undominated equilibrium
KW - Saturation
KW - Socially-maximal equilibrium
KW - Undominated equilibrium
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jmateco.2018.09.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jmateco.2018.09.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054882353
SN - 0304-4068
VL - 79
SP - 18
EP - 26
JO - Journal of Mathematical Economics
JF - Journal of Mathematical Economics
ER -