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Finance Applications of Game Theory

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  • Franklin Allen
  • Stephen Morris

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Traditional finance theory based on the assumptions of symmetric information and perfect and competitive markets has provided many important insights. These include the Modigliani and Miller Theorems, the CAPM, the Efficient Markets Hypothesis and continuous time finance. However, many empirical phenomena are difficult to reconcile with this traditional framework. Game theoretic techniques have allowed insights into a number of these. Many puzzles remain. This paper argues that recent advances in game theory concerned with higher order beliefs, informational cascades and heterogeneous prior beliefs have the potential to provide insights into some of these remaining puzzles.

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  • Franklin Allen & Stephen Morris, 1998. "Finance Applications of Game Theory," Center for Financial Institutions Working Papers 98-23, Wharton School Center for Financial Institutions, University of Pennsylvania.
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