The role of information processing cost as the foundation of bounded rationality in game theory

Economics Letters

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 287-294

  Horaguchi, Haruo ^a,b,c  

^a HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c c/o Mr Hagiwara   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Information processing cost; Nash equilibrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030306135     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1765(96)00828-2     Document Type: Article

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