This paper formulates and analyzes a general model of elections in which candidates receive private signals about voters’ preferences prior to committing to political platforms. We fully characterize the unique pure-strategy equilibrium: After receiving her signal, each candidate locates at the median of the distribution of the median voter’s location, conditional on the other candidate receivi...

Nash Cournot Equilibrium (NCE) has been widely used in a competitive electricity market to analyze generation firms’ strategic production quantities. Congestion on a transmission network may lead to a mixed strategy NCE. Mixed strategy is complicated to understand, difficult to compute, and hard to implement in practical market. However, Stackelberg model based equilibrium does not have any mix...

Abstract: In this paper, we study the concepts of evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS), neighborhood invader strategy (NIS) and global invader strategy (GIS) in mixed games which are composed by pure games according to a certain probability distribution. We find the equivalent conditions about the three concepts in mixed games. The main conclusion is that if all the pure games have a same ESS o...