The Consistent Preferences Approach to Deductive Reasoning in Games

• Main Author: Asheim, Geir B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Theory and Decision Library C, 37
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Game theory.; Mathematical models.; Economic theory.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

During the last decade I have explored the consequences of what I have chosen to call the 'consistent preferences' approach to deductive reasoning in games. To a great extent this work has been done in coop­ eration with my co-authors Martin Dufwenberg, Andres Perea, and Ylva Sovik, and it...

Table of Contents:

• Motivating Examples
• Decision-Theoretic Framework
• Belief Operators
• Basic Characterizations
• Relaxing Completeness
• Backward Induction
• Sequentiality
• Quasi-Perfectness
• Properness
• Capturing forward Induction through Full Permissibility
• Applying Full Permissibility to Extensive Games.