Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31366 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 07-1
Publisher: 
University of California, Department of Economics, Davis, CA
Abstract: 
We consider strategic-form games with ordinal payoffs and provide a syntactic analysis of common belief/knowledge of rationality, which we define axiomatically. Two axioms are considered. The first says that a player is irrational if she chooses a particular strategy while believing that another strategy is better. We show that common belief of this weak notion of rationality characterizes the iterated deletion of pure strategies that are strictly dominated by pure strategies. The second axiom says that a player is irrational if she chooses a particular strategy while believing that a different strategy is at least as good and she considers it possible that this alternative strategy is actually better than the chosen one. We show that common knowledge of this stronger notion of rationality characterizes the restriction to pure strategies of the iterated deletion procedure introduced by Stalnaker (1994).
Subjects: 
rationality
common belief
rationalizability
dominated strategies
game logic
frame characterization
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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