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An approach initiated in [4] is shown to unify results about the existence of (i) Nash equilibria in games with at most countably many players, (ii) Cournot-Nash equilibrium distributions for large, anonymous games, and (iii) Nash equilibria (both mixed and pure) for continuum games. A new, central notion ofmixed externality is developed for this purpose.
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Balder, E.J. A unifying approach to existence of nash equilibria. Int J Game Theory 24, 79–94 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01258205
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