We study a strict version of the notion of equilibrium robustness by Kajii and Morris (1997) that allows for a larger class of incomplete information perturbations of a given complete information game, where with high probability, players believe that their payoffs are close to (but may be different from) those of the complete information game. We show that a strict monotone potential maximizer of a complete information game is strictly robust if either the game or the associated strict monotone potential is supermodular, and that the converse also holds in all binary-action supermodular games. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: C72, D82.

Key Words: Incomplete information, robustness, monotone potential, sequential obedience, information design.

Japanese Economic Review 74 (2023), 357-376. PDF file
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