
doi: 10.2139/ssrn.1804687
handle: 10419/58355
We define an extensive-form analogue of iterated admissibility, called Prudent Rationalizability (PR). In each round of the procedure, for each information set of a player a surviving strategy of hers is required to be rational vis-a-vis a belief system with a full-support belief on the opponents' previously surviving strategies that reach that information set. Somewhat surprisingly, prudent rationalizable strategies may not refine the set of Extensive-Form Rationalizable (EFR) strategies (Pearce 1984). However, we prove that the paths induced by PR strategy-profiles (weakly) refine the set of paths induced by EFR strategies. PR applies also to generalized extensive-form games which model mutual unawareness of actions (Heifetz, Meier and Schipper, 2011a). We demonstrate the applicability of PR in the analysis of verifiable communication, and show that it yields the same, full information unraveling prediction as does the unique sequential equilibrium singled out by Milgrom and Roberts (1986); yet, we also show that under unawareness full unraveling might fail.
Mechanism Design, C72 - Noncooperative Games, ddc:330, prudent rationalizability, D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information, C70 - General, caution, extensive-form games, extensive-form rationalizability, C72, D82, unawareness, verifiable communication, C70, D80, D80 - General, Prudent rationalizability, caution, extensive-form rationalizability, extensive-form games, unawareness, verifiable communication, jel: jel:C70, jel: jel:D80, jel: jel:C72, jel: jel:D82
Mechanism Design, C72 - Noncooperative Games, ddc:330, prudent rationalizability, D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information, C70 - General, caution, extensive-form games, extensive-form rationalizability, C72, D82, unawareness, verifiable communication, C70, D80, D80 - General, Prudent rationalizability, caution, extensive-form rationalizability, extensive-form games, unawareness, verifiable communication, jel: jel:C70, jel: jel:D80, jel: jel:C72, jel: jel:D82
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