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A '''subgame perfect equilibrium''' is a refinement of the [[Nash Equilibrium|Nash equilibrium]] concept that eliminates strategies relying on non-credible threats. In extensive-form games — games played over time with sequential moves — a Nash equilibrium may include threats that a rational player would never actually carry out if called upon. Subgame perfection requires that players' strategies constitute Nash equilibria in every subgame, not just the game as a whole.

The concept was introduced by [[Reinhard Selten]] in 1965 and is now the standard solution concept for dynamic games. It captures the intuition that rationality should be consistent across time: a strategy that is optimal at the beginning of the game should remain optimal at every decision point, given the information available. The standard method for finding subgame perfect equilibria is [[Backward Induction|backward induction]], which solves the game from the final moves backward to the first.

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