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Incredibility of perfect threats in repeated games: The dilemma of a rational player

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The implicit assumption made when deterrence solutions to repeated games are constructed, is that perfectness is a sufficient condition for the credibility of threats. In this paper it is shown that the validity of this assumption hinges on another assumption which proves to be unsatisfactory - namely that players exhibit a different rationality at different stages of the game. A consequence of making rationality independent of time is that sufficient conditions for the credibility of threats fail to exist.

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  • Mohr, Ernst, 1985. "Incredibility of perfect threats in repeated games: The dilemma of a rational player," Discussion Papers, Series I 202, University of Konstanz, Department of Economics.
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