Individual upper semicontinuity and subgame perfect ϵ-equilibria in games with almost perfect information

Janos Flesch, P. Jean-Jacques Herings*, Jasmine Maes, Arkadi Predtetchinski

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Abstract

We study games with almost perfect information and an infinite time horizon. In such games, at each stage, the players simultaneously choose actions from finite action sets, knowing the actions chosen at all previous stages. The payoff of each player is a function of all actions chosen during the game. We define and examine the new condition of individual upper semicontinuity on the payoff functions, which is weaker than upper semicontinuity. We prove that a game with individual upper semicontinuous payoff functions admits a subgame perfect \(\epsilon \)-equilibrium for every \(\epsilon >0\), in eventually pure strategy profiles.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)695-719
Number of pages25
JournalEconomic Theory
Volume73
Issue number2-3
Early online date29 May 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2022

Keywords

  • almost perfect information
  • individual upper semicontinuity
  • infinite game
  • subgame perfect ϵ-equilibrium
  • Subgame perfect epsilon-equilibrium
  • Almost perfect information
  • Individual upper semicontinuity
  • Infinite game

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