Money illusion and coordination failure

Games and Economic Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 246-268

  Fehr, Ernst ^a   Tyran, Jean Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coordination failure; Coordination games; Equilibrium selection; Money illusion; Multiple equilibria

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751544840     PISSN: 08998256     EISSN: 10902473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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