Endogenous Heterogeneity in Strategic Models: Symmetry-breaking via Strategic Substitutes and Nonconcavities



Figure 5: Square of the length α.

Finally, summarizing, we have:

L(x, x) - L(x - α, x)+bε

U(x + α, x) - U(x, x)

U(x + α, x - α) - U(x,x - α)

U(x, x - α) - U(x - α, x - α)+bε

where, the first inequality comes from (20), the second one from (19) and the
last one from
(22). So we obtain,

U (x, x - α) - U (x - α, x - α)+bε (x, x) - L(x - α, x)+bε.     (23)

Subtracting b from both sides ends the proof. ■

The next lemma extends the property of submodularity of F form the small
square of length
α to any square with two vertices on the diagonal.

Lemma 8.2 If Lemma 8.1 holds, then for any square with points in the diago-
nal, such as depicted in figure 7, we have,

F(z, x) - F(z, z) F(x, x) - F (x, z) .

Proof. (Lemma 8.2) Consider the square formed by the four points defined in
the lemma. Divide this square into rectangles such that their height is equal to

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