Sensitivity of equilibrium behavior to higher-order beliefs in nice games

B-Tier
Journal: Games and Economic Behavior
Year: 2011
Volume: 72
Issue: 1
Pages: 288-300

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

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

Abstract

We analyze "nice" games (where action spaces are compact intervals, utilities continuous and strictly concave in own action), which are used frequently in classical economic models. Without making any "richness" assumption, we characterize the sensitivity of any given Bayesian Nash equilibrium to higher-order beliefs. That is, for each type, we characterize the set of actions that can be played in equilibrium by some type whose lower-order beliefs are all as in the original type. We show that this set is given by a local version of interim correlated rationalizability. This allows us to characterize the robust predictions of a given model under arbitrary common knowledge restrictions. We apply our framework to a Cournot game with many players. There we show that we can never robustly rule out any production level below the monopoly production of each firm.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:gamebe:v:72:y:2011:i:1:p:288-300
Journal Field
Theory
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-29