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Robustness to strategic uncertainty in price competition
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Robustness to strategic uncertainty in price competition

Ola Andersson, Cédric Argenton and Jörgen Weibull
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SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance, 726, Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)
2010

Abstract

Nash equilibrium refinement strategic uncertainty price competition C72 D43 L13
We model a player's uncertainty about other player's strategy choices as probability distributions over their strategy sets. We call a strategy profile robust to strategic uncertainty if it is the limit, as uncertainty vanishes, of some sequence of strategy profiles in each of which every player's strategy is optimal under his or her uncertainty about the pthers. We apply this definition to Bertrand games with a continuum of equilibrium prices and show that our robustness criterion selects a unique Nash equilibrium price. This selection agrees with available experimental findings.
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