Finite order implications of common priors

Econometrica

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1255-1267

  Lipman, Barton L ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Common belief; Common knowledge; Common prior assumption; Universal belief space

Indexed keywords

FINITE AUTOMATA; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MANY VALUED LOGICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FINITE PARTITION MODELS; UNIVERSAL BELIEF SPACE;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 0141829826     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0262.00446     Document Type: Note

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