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Choice by iterative search
Masatlioglu, Yusufcan; Nakajima, Daisuke - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 8 (2013) 3, pp. 701-728
analyze every alternative. To capture these situations, we formulate a framework to study behavioral search by utilizing the … idea of consideration sets. Consumers engage in a dynamic search process. At each stage, they consider only those options … identify both search paths and preferences. …
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Twisting the truth : foundations of wishful thinking
Kovach, Matthew - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 15 (2020) 3, pp. 989-1022
Considerable evidence shows that people have optimistic beliefs about future outcomes. I present an axiomatic model of wishful thinking (WT), in which an endowed alternative, or status quo, influences the agent's beliefs over states and thus induces such optimism. I introduce a behavioral axiom...
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Subjective expected utility in games
Di Tillio, Alfredo - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 3 (2008) 3, pp. 287-323
This paper extends Savage's subjective approach to probability and utility from decision problems under exogenous uncertainty to choice in strategic environments. Interactive uncertainty is modeled both explicitly, using hierarchies of preference relations, the analogue of beliefs hierarchies,...
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Regret testing : learning to play Nash equilibrium without knowing you have an opponent
Foster, Dean P.; Young, H. Peyton - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 1 (2006) 3, pp. 341-367
A learning rule is uncoupled if a player does not condition his strategy on the opponent's payoffs. It is radically uncoupled if a player does not condition his strategy on the opponent's actions or payoffs. We demonstrate a family of simple, radically uncoupled learning rules whose...
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Uncertain rationality, depth of reasoning and robustness in games with incomplete information
Germano, Fabrizio; Weinstein, Jonathan; Zuazo-Garin, Peio - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 15 (2020) 1, pp. 89-122
Predictions under common knowledge of payoffs may differ from those under arbitrarily, but finitely, many orders of mutual knowledge; Rubinstein's (1989)Email game is a seminal example. Weinstein and Yildiz (2007) showed that the discontinuity in the example generalizes: for all types with...
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A general analysis of boundedly rational learning in social networks
Mueller-Frank, Manuel; Neri, Claudia - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 16 (2021) 1, pp. 317-357
We analyze boundedly rational learning in social networks within binary action environments. We establish how learning outcomes depend on the environment (i.e., informational structure, utility function), the axioms imposed on the updating behavior, and the network structure. In particular, we...
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Monotone threshold representations
Frick, Mira - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 11 (2016) 3, pp. 757-772
Motivated by the literature on ``choice overload'', we study a boundedly rational agent whose choice behavior admits a \textit{monotone threshold representation}: There is an underlying rational benchmark, corresponding to maximization of a utility function $v$, from which the agent's choices...
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The loser's curse in the search for advice
Au, Pak Hung - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 14 (2019) 3, pp. 1015-1061
incurring a positive search cost, the agent can consult an expert, whose interest is partially aligned with him. There are … vanishing search cost. The main findings are as follows. First, there are signal structures with which both the agent's payoff …
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Dynamics of information exchange in endogenous social networks
Acemoglu, Daron; Bimpikis, Kostas; Ozdaglar, Asuman E. - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 9 (2014) 1, pp. 41-97
We develop a model of information exchange through communication and investigate its implications for information aggregation in large societies. An \textit{underlying state} determines payoffs from different actions. Agents decide which others to form a costly \textit{communication link} with,...
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Pricing and investments in matching markets
Mailath, George J.; Postlewaite, Andrew; Samuelson, Larry - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 8 (2013) 2, pp. 535-590
Different markets are cleared by different types of prices—seller-specific prices that are uniform across buyers in some markets, and personalized prices tailored to the buyer in others. We examine a setting in which buyers and sellers make investments before matching in a competitive market....
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