SFB 504 discussion paper 05-08

Alexander Zimper
Sonderforschungsbereich 504
L 13, 15, D-68131 Mannheim
zimper@bigfoot.com

Equivalence between best responses and undominated

Abstract:

For games with expected utility maximizing players whose strategy sets are finite, Pearce (1984) shows that a strategy is strictly dominated by some mixed strategy, if and only if, this strategy is not a best response to some belief about opponents' strategy choice. This note generalizes Pearce's (1984) equivalence result to games with expected utility maximizing players whose strategy sets are arbitrary compact sets.

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C8 Eichberger

Creation date:

2005-02-21

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Economics Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 7 pp. 1-6

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