Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/221274 
Year of Publication: 
1990
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Paper No. 915
Publisher: 
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science, Evanston, IL
Abstract: 
This paper shows the existence of sequential and weak-best-response equilibria for cheap-talk extensions of signaling games for a class of signaling games called communication-impervious. An example shows there are well-behaved infinite signaling games with no sequential equilibria. The assumption that talk is cheap seems reasonable in many economic contexts and yields a very straightforward solution to the existence problem in infinite signaling games. The cheap-talk assumption opens the possibility of extending the methods of this paper to prove the existence of equilibrium in more-general extensive-form games with infinite action and information sets.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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