{"title":"Comparative statics in strategic form games","authors":"Juan F. Escobar","doi":"10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112247","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents new comparative statics results for strategic form games. We introduce a dominance condition that ensures payoff shocks result in increased Nash equilibria, even in games without strategic complementarities. Our results are easy to apply and expand the range of games where lattice theoretic tools can be applied. We derive new comparative statics results for contests and Cournot games.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11468,"journal":{"name":"Economics Letters","volume":"250 ","pages":"Article 112247"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Economics Letters","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176525000849","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper presents new comparative statics results for strategic form games. We introduce a dominance condition that ensures payoff shocks result in increased Nash equilibria, even in games without strategic complementarities. Our results are easy to apply and expand the range of games where lattice theoretic tools can be applied. We derive new comparative statics results for contests and Cournot games.
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