Common Belief Foundations of Global Games

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Stephen Morris

MIT

Hyun Song Shin

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Muhamet Yildiz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics

Date Written: November 1, 2015

Abstract

We study coordination games under general type spaces. We characterize rationalizable actions in terms of the properties of the belief hierarchies and show that there is a unique rationalizable action played whenever there is approximate common certainty of rank beliefs, defi…ned as the probability the players assign to their payoff parameters being higher than their opponents’. We argue that this is the driving force behind selection results for the specifi…c type spaces in the global games literature.

Suggested Citation

Morris, Stephen Edward and Shin, Hyun Song and Yildiz, Muhamet, Common Belief Foundations of Global Games (November 1, 2015). Princeton University William S. Dietrich II Economic Theory Center Research Paper No. 069_2015, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2611792 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2611792

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