This paper surveys some recent attempts to formulate a plausible and tractable model of bounded rationality. I focus in particular on models which view bounded rationality as stemming from limited information processing. I discuss computability, partitional models (such as automata, perceptrons,...

It has long been recognized that solving the logical omniscience problem requires using some kind of nonstandard possible worlds. While many such logics have been proposed, none has an obvious claim as the "right" logic to use to describe the reasoning of agents who are not logically omniscient....

We show that in a class of I‐agent mechanism design problems with evidence, commitment is unnecessary, randomization has no value, and robust incentive compatibility has no cost. In particular, for each agent i, we construct a simple disclosure game between the...

My own behavior baffles me. For I find myself not doing what I really want to do but doing what I really loathe." Saint Paul What behavior can be explained using the hypothesis that the agent faces temptation but is otherwise a standard rational agent"? In earlier work, GulPesendorfer [2001] use...

Tirole (1982) is commonly interpreted as proving that bubbles are impossible with finitely many rational traders with common priors. We study a simple variation of his model in which bubbles can occur, even though traders have common priors and common knowledge that the asset has no fundamental...

We show that the standard results for finitely repeated games do not survive the combination of two simple variations on the usual model. In particular, we add a small cost of changing actions and consider the effect of increasing the frequency of repetitions within a fixed period of time. We...

My own behavior baffles me. For I find myself not doing what I really want to do but doing what I really loathe.ʺ Saint Paul What behavior can be explained using the hypothesis that the agent faces temptation but is otherwise a standard rational agentʺ? In earlier work, GulPesendorfer [2001]...