Comprehensive rationalizability

B-Tier
Journal: Games and Economic Behavior
Year: 2019
Volume: 116
Issue: C
Pages: 185-202

Authors (3)

Heifetz, Aviad (not in RePEc) Meier, Martin (not in RePEc) Schipper, Burkhard C. (University of California-Davis)

Score contribution per author:

0.670 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We present a new solution concept for strategic games called comprehensive rationalizability that embodies a new version of “common cautious belief in rationality” based on a sound epistemic characterization in a universal type space. Differently from existing iterative strategy elimination procedures in the literature, it should rather be viewed as an iterative strategy demotion procedure as it requires some memory of previously discarded strategies. It refines rationalizability, but it neither refines nor is refined by iterated admissibility. Nevertheless, it coincides with iterated admissibility in many relevant economic applications.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:gamebe:v:116:y:2019:i:c:p:185-202
Journal Field
Theory
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-29