Article ID: | iaor19961727 |
Country: | Germany |
Volume: | 24 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 345 |
End Page Number: | 356 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1995 |
Journal: | International Journal of Game Theory |
Authors: | Abdou J. |
Keywords: | Nash theory and methods |
A two-player game form is Nash-consistent if and only if it is tight (Gurvich). Therefore Nash-consistency of two-player game forms depends only on the effectivity structure. This fact is no longer true for strong consistency. This paper introduces a new object called the joint effectivity structure and define the exact joint effectivity set. These notions are similar though more sophisticated than the usual effectivity functions. The paper proves that a two-player game form is strongly consistent if and only if it is tight and jointly exact. Joint exactness is a property of the exact joint effectivity set which basically requires that the joint exact effectivity set coincides with the classical effectivity function. As a corollary the paper has a characterization ot two-player strongly implementable social choice correspondences.