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Robustness to strategic uncertainty in price competition

Authors :
Andersson, Ola
Argenton, Cédric
Weibull, Jörgen W.
Publication Year :
2010
Publisher :
Stockholm: Stockholm School of Economics, The Economic Research Institute (EFI), 2010.

Abstract

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.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.od......1687..4db92424002105639423880ad75bf043