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Compactification of Extensive Game Structures and Backward Dominance Procedure

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We study the relationship between invariant transformations on extensive game structures and backward dominance procedure (BD), a generalization of the classical backward induction introduced in Perea (2014). We show that behavioral equivalence with unambiguous orderings of information sets, a critical property that guarantees BD's applicability, can be characterized by the classical Coalescing and a modified Interchange/Simultanizing in Battigalli et al. (2020). We also give conditions on transformations that improve BD's efficiency. In addition, we discuss the relationship between transformations and Bonanno (2014)'s generalized backward induction.

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  • Shuige Liu, 2019. "Compactification of Extensive Game Structures and Backward Dominance Procedure," Papers 1905.00355, arXiv.org, revised Nov 2020.
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