Synchronic information, knowledge and common knowledge in extensive games.pdfVIP

1SYNCHRONIC INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE AND COMMON KNOWLEDGE IN EXTENSIVE GAMES Pierpaolo Battigalli and Giacomo Bonanno * 1. Introduction The language of extensive games is complex and rich. It allows one to express such notions as the order of moves, the information a player has when it is her turn to move, etc. It is not, however, a sufficiently rich language in the sense that there are meaningful and natural statements that one can make (about a given extensive game) whose truth cannot be decided without making the language richer. We shall give two examples. Consider first the extensive form