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Ewerhart, Christian (2002). Iterated weak dominance in strictly competitive games of perfect information. Journal of Economic Theory, 107(2):474-482.
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article, refereed, original work |
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| Communities & Collections: | 03 Faculty of Economics > Department of Economics |
| DDC: | 330 Economics |
| Language: | English |
| Date: | 2002 |
| Deposited On: | 06 Apr 2010 13:02 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Nov 2012 16:52 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0022-0531 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1006/jeth.2001.2958 |
| WoS Citation Count: | 2 |
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