Beliefs in Network Games (Revised version of CentER DP 2007-46)

W. Kets

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Abstract

Networks can have an important effect on economic outcomes. Given the complexity of many of these networks, agents will generally not know their structure. We study the sensitivity of game-theoretic predictions to the specification of players’ (common) prior on the network in a setting where players play a fixed game with their neighbors and only have local information on the network structure. We show that two priors are close in a strategic sense if and only if (i) the priors assign similar probabilities to all events that involve a player and his neighbors, and (ii) with high probability, a player believes, given his type, that his neighbors’ conditional beliefs are close under the two priors, and that his neighbors believe, given their type, that. . . the conditional beliefs of their neighbors are close, for any number of iterations.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationTilburg
PublisherMicroeconomics
Number of pages48
Volume2008-5
Publication statusPublished - 2008

Publication series

NameCentER Discussion Paper
Volume2008-5

Keywords

  • Network games
  • incomplete information
  • higher order beliefs
  • continuity
  • random networks
  • population uncertainty

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