Jack Hirshleifer, John G. Riley, Sushil Bikchandani

The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition, with a greater focus on game theory, attempts to unify recent developments in economic theories of uncertainty and information for students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 970g
• ISBN-13: 9780521834087
• ISBN-10: 0521834082
• Artikelnr.: 39147826

Autorenporträt

Sushil Bikhchandani is a Professor in the Anderson School of Management Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. His teaching and research interests include auctions, market institutions, herd behavior and information economics. Professor Bikhchandani has published in numerous academic journals, including Theoretical Economics, Operations Research, the Journal of Economic Theory, and Econometrica.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. Elements of decision under uncertainty
2. Risk-bearing: the optimum of the individual
3. Comparative statics of the risk-bearing optimum
4. Market equilibrium under uncertainty
Part II: 5. Information and informational decisions
6. Information and markets
7. Strategic uncertainty and equilibrium concepts
8. Informational asymmetry and contract design
9. Competition and hidden knowledge
10. Market institutions
11. Long-run relationships and the credibility of threats and promises
12. Information aggregation, transmission, and acquisition.