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Coalitional rationalizability

delete2006-08-01
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Attila Ambrus *
DOI:10.1162/qjec.121.3.903delete
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This paper investigates how groups or coalitions of players can act in their collective interest in noncooperative normal form games even if equilibrium play is not assumed. The main idea is that each member of a coalition will confine play to a subset of their strategies if it is in their mutual interest to do so. An iterative procedure of restrictions is used to define a noncooperative solution concept, the set of coalitionally rationalizable strategies. The procedure is analogous to iterative deletion of never best response strategies, but operates on implicit agreements by different coalitions. The solution set is a nonempty subset of the rationalizable strategies.
Keywords:
STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR
NASH EQUILIBRIUM
FORM GAMES
COMMUNICATION
COORDINATION
AGREEMENTS
STABILITY
AGENTS
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Quarterly Journal of Economics cover
Quarterly Journal of Economics
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