Models of Bounded Rationality and Mechanism Design (World Scientific Series in Economic Theory)

Glazer, Jacob; Rubinstein, Ariel

ISBN 10: 9813141328 / ISBN 13: 9789813141322

Published by World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Models of Bounded Rationality and Mechanism Design (World Scientific Series in Economic Theory)
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9813141328
• ISBN 13: 9789813141322
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book brings together the authors' joint papers from over a period of more than twenty years. The collection includes seven papers, each of which presents a novel and rigorous model in Economic Theory.All of the models are within the domain of implementation and mechanism design theories. These theories attempt to explain how incentive schemes and organizations can be designed with the goal of inducing agents to behave according to the designer's (principal's) objectives. Most of the literature assumes that agents are fully rational. In contrast, the authors inject into each model an element which conflicts with the standard notion of full rationality, demonstrating how such elements can dramatically change the mechanism design problem.Although all of the models presented in this volume touch on mechanism design issues, it is the formal modeling of bounded rationality that the authors are most interested in. A model of bounded rationality signifies a model that contains a procedural element of reasoning that is not consistent with full rationality. Rather than looking for a canonical model of bounded rationality, the articles introduce a variety of modeling devices that will capture procedural elements not previously considered, and which alter the analysis of the model.The book is a journey into the modeling of bounded rationality. It is a collection of modeling ideas rather than a general alternative theory of implementation.

About the Author

Ariel Rubinstein is Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University and Princeton University. His recent publications include Modeling Bounded Rationality (1998), A Course in Game Theory (with M. Osborne, 1994) and Bargaining and Markets (with M. Osborne, 1990).