[This item is a preserved copy. To view the original, visit http://econtheory.org/] In a general interdependent preference environment, we characterize when two payoff types can be distinguished by their rationalizable strategic choices without any prior knowledge of their beliefs and higher...

Since the beginning of the developing-country debt crisi in mid-1982, economists have puzzled iver its origins. Why did market forces not dater creditors from lending and debtors from borrowing so very much more than could, in retrospect, be repaid? Moreover, once the crisis was under way, why...