Strategic cautiousness as an expression of robustness to ambiguity
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- Gabriel Ziegler & Peio Zuazo-Garin, 2019. "Strategic cautiousness as an expression of robustness to ambiguity," Economics Working Papers 1630, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
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Keywords
Game theory; Decision theory; Ambiguity; Knightian uncertainty; Incomplete preferences; Bayesian rationality; Cautiousness; Iterated admissibility;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
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