Cheap Talk and Sequential Equilibria in Signaling Games
- 1 July 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Econometrica
- Vol. 64 (4) , 917-942
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2171850
Abstract
Well-behaved infinite signaling games may have no sequential equilibria. We prove that adding cheap talk to these games ''solves'' the nonexistence problem: the limit of sequential equilibrium outcomes of finite approximating games is a sequential equilibrium outcome of the cheap-talk extension of the limit game. In addition, when the signaling space has no isolated points, any cheap-talk sequential equilibrium outcome can be approximated by a sequential epsilon-equilibrium of the game without cheap talk.Keywords
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