Equilibrium Departures from Common Knowledge in Games with Non-Additive Expected Utility

B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Mukerji, Sujoy ^a   Shin, Hyun Song ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; capacities; Choquet integral; common belief

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957499684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-5963.1011     Document Type: Article

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