Bounded rationality in strategic interaction contexts: Recent developments in modeling unforeseen contingencies

Eddie Dekel, Barton L. Lipman, Aldo Rustichini

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Abstract

We survey recent models of unforeseen contingencies, discussing both epistemic and decision - theoretic approaches. We also briefly comment on the hurdles which remain for applying these models to contract theory.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)523-542
Number of pages20
JournalEuropean Economic Review
Volume42
Issue number3-5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1998

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank Drew Fudenberg and Paolo Ghirardato for helpful comments. Dekel and Rustichini thank the NSF and Lipman thanks SSHRCC for financial support for this research. Lipman also thanks Carnegie Mellon for their hospitality while this work was in progress.

Keywords

  • Incomplete contracts
  • Unforeseen contingencies

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