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E-Equilibria for Multicriteria Games

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In this paper we propose an equilibrium definition for non-cooperative multicriteria games based on improvement sets. Our new definition generalizes the idea of exact and approximate equilibria. We obtain existence theorems for some multicriteria games.

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This research was partially supported by MUR (Ministero Università Ricerca- Italia-) via a contract with S.Tijs. We thank Rodica Branzei for her helpful comments on a previous version of the paper. The valuable comments of the referees are gratefully acknowledged.

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Pusillo, L., Tijs, S. (2013). E-Equilibria for Multicriteria Games. In: Cardaliaguet, P., Cressman, R. (eds) Advances in Dynamic Games. Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games, vol 12. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8355-9_11

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