Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/80116 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2003-02
Publisher: 
Brown University, Department of Economics, Providence, RI
Abstract: 
In this paper we develop tests for whether play in a game is consistent with equilibrium behavior when preferences are unobserved. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for observed outcomes in extensive game forms to be rationalized first, partially, as a Nash equilibrium and then, fully, as the unique subgame-perfect equilibrium. Thus one could use these conditions to find that play is (a) consistent with subgame-perfect equilibrium, or (b) not consistent with subgame-perfect behavior but is consistent with Nash equilibrium, or (c) consistent with neither. Further, we discuss the relevance of the test outcomes for rationalization of data by multiple preference profiles.
Subjects: 
Revealed Preference
Consistency
Subgame-Perfect
JEL: 
C72
C92
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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