Rationalizability of choice functions by game trees
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

"Rationalizability of choice functions by game trees" (pdf)

by Yongsheng Xu and Lin Zhou
May 3, 2004

Keywords: choice function, game tree, separability, divergence consistency, cyclicity

Collective choices are often cyclic and cannot be rationalized by a well-defined linear ordering. In this paper we identify conditions under which collective choices, potentially cyclic, can be rationalized by extensive games with perfect information.

Comments and questions regarding this paper may be directed to Yongsheng Xu at yxu3@gsu.edu.