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We challenge the standard definition of economic rationality as consistency by making use of a novel distinction … evidence raises doubts about the choice of language that equates consistency with rationality in economics. …
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The main insight of this paper is that moral behavior does not necessarily alleviate coordination problems or may even worsen them, if individuals possess different degrees of morality. We characterize heterogenous Alger-Weibull morality preferences in a canonical model of voluntary...
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This paper analyses the behavior of an individual who wants to maximize his utility function, but he is not able to evaluate it. There are many ways to choose a single alternative from a given set. We show that a unique utility maximizing procedure exists. Choices induced by this optimal...
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This paper sketches important concepts of rationality. It concentrates on bounded rationality and provides descriptions … underlying concept of ecological rationality in judgment and decision making with the field of management research. This area has … development in this debate on rationality, this paper presents a sketch of the fast and frugal heuristic program as well as short …
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In this paper, we examine the concept of rule rationality, which implies that people do not necessarily maximize their … of rationality …
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In a Nash equilibrium, players' rationality is mutual knowledge. However, both intuition and experimental evidence … suggest that players do not know for sure the rationality of opponents. This paper proposes a new equilibrium concept … equilibrium, players do not necessarily know the rationality of opponents, but they view rationality as infinitely more likely …
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The centipede game is a two-player finite game of perfect information where a unique subgame perfect Nash equilibrium appears to be intuitively unappealing and descriptively inadequate. This paper analyzes behavior in the centipede game when a traditional game-theoretical assumption that players...
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explicit the role of knowledge about rationality of players, not only that of payoff functions. For this purpose, we use an … bound order of mutual knowledge of rationality. This result implies that under common knowledge of rationality, the …
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given problem is framed. Thus, real world agents are only, it is said, capable of a bounded rationality, using rules of … thumb and various heuristics (sometimes helpful, sometimes not) rather than the fully fledged maximizing rationality that is … normative account of rationality that animates rational choice theory, and not just the positive account that is criticized by …
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Epistemic game theory formalizes assumptions about rationality and mutual beliefs in a formal language, then studies … their behavioral implications in games. Specifically, it asks: what do different notions of rationality and different … assumptions about what players believe about…what others believe about the rationality of players imply regarding play in a game …
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