Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108047 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IEHAS Discussion Papers No. MT-DP - 2003/3
Publisher: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Budapest
Abstract: 
This paper shows that incomplete information and sufficient heterogeneity of players can ensure uniqueness in interaction games. In contrast to recent work on uniqueness in interaction games, we do not require strategic complementarity. There are two parts to the argument. First, if a player’s signal is sufficiently uninformative of the signals of its opponents (in the sense of the Fisher information of the signal), then the player’s best response to any strategy profile of its opponents is non-decreasing in its signal. Secondly, a contraction mapping argument shows that sufficient heterogeneity ensures that equilibrium is unique.
Subjects: 
Co-ordination
Interaction games
Heterogeneity
Unique equilibrium
JEL: 
C72
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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