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Games with (dis-)continuous payoff functions and the problem of measurability

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2025
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Ewerhart, C. (2025). Games with (dis-)continuous payoff functions and the problem of measurability (No. 467; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).

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In noncooperative game theory, it is often taken for granted that expected payoffs are well-defined and independent of the integral representation. However, this need not be the case even if strategy spaces are compact and payoffs are bounded. In this paper, we establish general conditions under which the measurability requirements for working with expected payoffs are automatically met. We use our findings to enhance Glicksberg’s equilibrium existence theorem and to rigorously construct the mixed extension of discontinuous games such

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Working paper series / Department of Economics

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C72

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compact games, expected payoffs, measurability, Baire functions, Glicksberg’s theorem, discontinuous games, u.s.c.-l.s.c. minimax theorem

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2025-09

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2025-03-27

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15

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1664-7041

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Revised version ; Former title: Games with continuous payoff functions and the problem of measurability

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112 since deposited on 2025-03-27
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Ewerhart, C. (2025). Games with (dis-)continuous payoff functions and the problem of measurability (No. 467; Working Paper Series / Department of Economics).

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