Acta Structuralica

international journal for structuralist research

Journal | Volume | Article

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Common knowledge of payoff uncertainty in games

Boudewijn de Bruin

pp. 79-97

Abstract

Using epistemic logic, we provide a non-probabilistic way to formalise payoff uncertainty, that is, statements such as ‘player i has approximate knowledge about the utility functions of player j.’ We show that on the basis of this formalisation common knowledge of payoff uncertainty and rationality (in the sense of excluding weakly dominated strategies, due to Dekel and Fudenberg (1990)) characterises a new solution concept we have called ‘mixed iterated strict weak dominance.’

Publication details

Published in:

(2008) Synthese 163 (1).

Pages: 79-97

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-007-9275-5

Full citation:

de Bruin Boudewijn (2008) „Common knowledge of payoff uncertainty in games“. Synthese 163 (1), 79–97.