Ignorance and uncertainty / Olivier Compte and Andrew Postlewaite
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- 9781108434492
- 330.015195 COM-O
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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
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