Minimax regret and strategic uncertainty

نویسندگان

  • Ludovic Renou
  • Karl H. Schlag
چکیده

This paper introduces a new solution concept, a minimax regret equilibrium, which allows for the possibility that players are uncertain about the rationality and conjectures of their opponents. We provide several applications of our concept. In particular, we consider pricesetting environments and show that optimal pricing policy follows a non-degenerate distribution. The induced price dispersion is consistent with experimental and empirical observations (Baye and Morgan (2004)).

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Economic Theory

دوره 145  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010