Equilibrium selection in sequential games with imperfect information

Jon Eguia, Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Rebecca Morton and Antonio Nicolo'

Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, vol. 109, issue C, 465-483

Abstract: Games with imperfect information often feature multiple equilibria, which depend on beliefs off the equilibrium path. Standard selection criteria such as passive, symmetric or wary beliefs rest on ad hoc restrictions on beliefs. We propose a new selection criterion that imposes no restrictions on beliefs: we select the action profile that is supported in equilibrium by the largest set of beliefs. We conduct an experiment to compare the predictive power of the existing and our novel selection criteria in an application on vertical multi-lateral contracting. We find that our criterion outperforms the other selection criteria.

Keywords: Equilibrium selection; Passive beliefs; Symmetric beliefs; Vertical contracting; Multiple equilibria; Imperfect information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C92 D86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Working Paper: Equilibrium Selection in Sequential Games with Imperfect Information (2014)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2018.01.008

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