Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/70364 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Research Report No. 2005-2
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The University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics, London (Ontario)
Abstract: 
This paper offers two characterizations of the Kreps-Wilson concept of consistent beliefs. One is primarily of applied interest: beliefs are consistent iff they can be constructed by multiplying together vectors of monomials which induce the strategies. The other is primarily of conceptual interest: beliefs are consistent iff they can be induced by a product dispersion whose marginal dispersions induce the strategies (a dispersion is defined as a relative probability system, and a product dispersion is defined as a joint dispersion whose marginal dispersions are independent). Both these characterizations are derived with linear algebra.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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