Common Belief Foundations of Global Games
Publication Year
2016
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We study coordination games under general type spaces. We characterize rationalizable actions in terms of the properties of the belief hierarchies and show that there is a unique rationalizable action played whenever there is approximate common certainty of rank beliefs, defined as the probability the players assign to their payoff parameters being higher than their opponents'. We argue that this is the driving force behind selection results for the specific type spaces in the global games literature.
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Journal
Journal of Economic Theory
Volume
163
Pages
- 848
Date Published
May 2016
ISBN
0022-0531, 0022-0531