The Order Independence of Iterated Dominance in Extensive Games, with Connections to Mechanism Design and Backward Induction

Shimoji and Watson (1998) prove that a strategy of an extensive game is rationalizable in the sense of Pearce if and only if it survives the maximal elimination of conditionally dominated strategies. Briefly, this process iteratively eliminates conditionally dominated strategies according to a speci...

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Main Authors: Chen, Jing, Micali, Silvio
Other Authors: Silvio Micali
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71953