Conditional Dominance, Rationalizability, and Game Forms

Makoto Shimoji and Joel Watson

UCSD Economics Discussion Paper 97-16
July 1997

Abstract

We propose a notion of conditional dominance and we investigate several versions of rationalizability and conditional dominance for general games. Among other results, we prove: (1) an equivalence result for conditional dominance and extensive form rationalizability, (2) that "consistency" is dispensable in the definition of rationalizability for extensive form games, and (3) results on the equivalence of solutions when applied to different representations of a game.


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