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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Iterated weak dominance in strictly competitive games of perfect information
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Christian Ewerhart
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Journal of Economic Theory
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0022-0531
Volume 107
Number 2
Page Range 474 - 482
Date 2002
Abstract Text We prove that any strictly competitive perfect-information two-person game with n outcomes is solvable in n−1 steps of elimination of weakly dominated strategies— regardless of the length of the game tree. The given bound is shown to be tight using a variant of Rosenthal's centipede game.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1006/jeth.2001.2958
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