Lecture 4: Rationalizability @mitocw
Lecture 4: Rationalizability  @mitocw
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MIT 14.12 Economic Applications of Game Theory, Fall 2025
Instructor: Ian Ball
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In this lecture, Ian Ball explains rationalizability, which is a concept defining the set of strategies that rational players might choose, assuming common knowledge of rationality.

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