A Survey on Supermodular Games
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چکیده
Supermodular games are an interesting class of games that exhibits strategic complementarity. There are several compelling reasons like existence of pure strategy nash equilibrium, dominance solvability, identical bounds on joint strategy space etc. that make them a strong candidate for game theoretic modeling of economics. Supermodular games give a sound framework for analysis as it is based on a rich mathematical foundation of lattice theory and comparative statics. Supermodular games are also important for mechanism designers as it is observed that supermodularity has a strong connection with convergence to the nash equilibrium.
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