Games of strategic complementarities: an application to Bayesian games

Spanish Economic Review - Tập 9 - Trang 237-247 - 2007
Xavier Vives1,2
1Department of Economics, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain
2Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Tóm tắt

This paper provides an introduction to the theory of games of strategic complementarities, considers Bayesian games, and provides an application to global games.

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