Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267015 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 351
Publisher: 
University of California, Department of Economics, Davis, CA
Abstract: 
Heifetz, Meier and Schipper (2013) introduced generalized extensive-form games that allow for asymmetric unawareness. Here, we study the normal form of a generalized extensiveform game. The generalized normal-form game associated to a generalized extensive-form game with unawareness may consist of a collection of normal-form games. We use it to characterize extensive-form rationalizability (resp. prudent rationalizability) in generalized extensive-form games by iterative conditional strict (resp. weak) dominance in the associated generalized normal-form. We also show that the analogue to iterated admissibility for generalized normal-form games is not independent of the extensive-form structure. This is because under unawareness, a player's information set not only determines which nodes he considers possible but also of which game tree(s) he is aware of.
Subjects: 
Awareness
unknown unknowns
extensive-form games
normal-form games
extensive-form rationalizability
prudent rationalizability
iterated conditional dominance
iterated admissibility
JEL: 
C72
D83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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