Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Ignorance and uncertainty / Olivier Compte and Andrew Postlewaite

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: India Cambridge University Press 2019Description: 287 pISBN:
  • 9781108434492
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.015195 COM-O
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books BITS Pilani Hyderabad 330 General Stack (For lending) 330.015195 COM-O (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 41242
Total holds: 0
Browsing BITS Pilani Hyderabad shelves, Shelving location: General Stack (For lending), Collection: 330 Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
330.015195 BAL-B Econometrics / 330.015195 BHA-S Principles of econometrics : a modern approach using eviews / 330.015195 BOL-L Model building in economics : 330.015195 COM-O Ignorance and uncertainty / 330.015195 END-W Applied econometric / 330.015195 HAL-N Essays in nonlinear time series econometrics / 330.015195 HSI-C Analysis of panel data /

Born of a belief that economic insights should not require much mathematical sophistication, this book proposes novel and parsimonious methods to incorporate ignorance and uncertainty into economic modeling, without complex mathematics. Economics has made great strides over the past several decades in modeling agents' decisions when they are incompletely informed, but many economists believe that there are aspects of these models that are less than satisfactory. Among the concerns are that ignorance is not captured well in most models, that agents' presumed cognitive ability is implausible, and that derived optimal behavior is sometimes driven by the fine details of the model rather than the underlying economics. Compte and Postlewaite lay out a tractable way to address these concerns, and to incorporate plausible limitations on agents' sophistication. A central aspect of the proposed methodology is to restrict the strategies assumed available to agents

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.
An institution deemed to be a University Estd. Vide Sec.3 of the UGC
Act,1956 under notification # F.12-23/63.U-2 of Jun 18,1964

© 2024 BITS-Library, BITS-Hyderabad, India.