COWLES FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS
AT YALE UNIVERSITY

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COWLES FOUNDATION DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 733

"Games with Perceptive Commanders But Less Perceptive Subordinates"

Martin Shubik

December 1984

We introduce a model of the 2 x 2 games played by agents or subordinates of the players. We assume that each agent or subordinates of the players. We assume that each agent is not as perceptive as his commander in that he can make only two distinctions among the four outcomes whose value can be distinguished by the commanders.

JEL Classification: 026

Keywords: Game theory, agents, commanders, subordinates