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Are there Sequential Equilibria that are not Trembling Hand Perfect Equilibria, that don't involve Weakly Dominated strategies?

I'm taking an advanced course (graduate level) in Game Theory. My class has covered several equilibrium concepts, up to Sequential Equilibrium. The professor said that there are already more ...
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Subgame perfect Nash equilibrium when there is a tie in payoffs seems problematic

My question follows from this question: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2132846/game-theory-subgame-perfect-nash-equilibrium-in-a-sequential-game-with-identica from Maths stackexchange. Based ...
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bargaining game information/equlibria/gametree/normalform

I have a game with two players, player one offers player two one of two cars, car 1(M) has value 2 and car 2 (H) has value 1. Player two can accept (A) or reject (R) the offer. Now I have to answer ...
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Does Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibria (SPNE) allow for credible threats?

Consider the following extensive-form game: In one alternative, Player 2 chooses G and E and Player 1 chooses D. However, Player 2 can increase her gain by making a credible threat and switch from G ...
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Subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium perfect information

This might be a stupid question but please bear with me. I'm trying to solve this game but I'm in doubt on how to represent the strategy profile of the game. The game looks like this in extensive-form....
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Finding pure-strategy subgame-perfect Nash equilibria

I'm interested in finding the pure-strategy subgame-perfect Nash equilibria of the game below. What is confusing me is that after player A chooses between reducing and not reducing his end payoffs, ...
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How to demonstrate that a game always have a subgame-perfect equilibrium in pure strategies?

If I have an specific extensive game, with only a finite set of strategies, how can I demonstrate that the game always have a subgame-perfect equilibrium in pure strategies? My first intuition was to ...
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Difference between Sequential and Weak Sequential (Weak Perfect Bayesian) Equilibria?

This is in reference to the Game theoretic concepts as Nash equilibrium refinements. Sequential equilibrium are often defined as satisfying two conditions: consistency and sequential rationality. ...
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