Bounded rationality in strategic interaction contexts: Recent developments in modeling unforeseen contingencies

European Economic Review

Volumn 42, Issue 3-5, 1998, Pages 523-542

  Dekel, Eddie ^a   Lipman, Barton L ^b   Rustichini, Aldo ^c,d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d Center for Research in Economics and Business Tilburg University   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Incomplete contracts; Unforeseen contingencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000890717     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2921(97)00114-1     Document Type: Article

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