Kuklys The Consistency Axiom - An Experimental Study

2005 after giving birth to her son Linas. May this article help to remember her. Abstract If a strict equilibrium is suggested as the solution of a normal form game and if some but not all players are committed to their solution strategy, a reduced game results with only the still non-committed as active players. The con-sistency axiom demands that the solution of the reduced game is given by the original solution strategies of its active players. However the reduced game prop-erty asks for too much: consistent equilibrium selection in general is not possible if existence and optimality are postulated. We test in an experiment the behavioral appeal of consistency, confronting players with a solution proposal before letting them decide both for the original game and for its reduced games