Contemporaneous Perfect Epsilon-Equilibria

We examine contemporaneous perfect epsilon-equilibria, in which a player's actions after every history, evaluated at the point of deviation from the equilibrium, must be within epsilon of a best response. This concept implies, but is not implied by Radner's ex ante perfect epsilon-equilibrium. A strategy profile is a contemporaneous perfect epsilon-equilibrium of a game if it is a subgame perfect equilibrium in a game achieved by perturbing payoffs by at most epsilon/2, with the converse holding for pure equilibria.

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Paper Number
02-004
Year
2002