 Attention, coordination, and bounded recallAlessandro Pavan Journal of Economic Theory, 2025, vol. 227, issue C Abstract: I consider a class of strategic interactions under asymmetric information in which, prior to finalizing their actions (consumption, production, or investment decisions), agents choose the attention to allocate to a large number of information sources about exogenous events that are responsible for their payoffs (the underlying fundamentals). I study what type of payoff interdependencies contribute to inefficiency in the allocation of attention. I then compare the results for the benchmark of perfect recall (in which the agents remember the content of individual sources) to those for bounded recall (in which the agents are unable to keep track of the influence of individual sources on posterior beliefs). More generally, the analysis illustrates the implications (for attention and usage of information) of a certain form of bounded rationality whereby the summary statistic the agents recall from the sources they pay attention to is distorted away from the optimal action towards the Bayesian projection of the exogenous fundamentals over the signals received. Keywords: Attention; Endogenous information; Strategic complementarity/substitutability; Externalities; Bounded rationality; (In)efficiency; Welfare; Bounded recall (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jetheo:v:227:y:2025:i:c:s0022053125000596 DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2025.106013 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Economic Theory is currently edited by A. Lizzeri and K. Shell More articles in Journal of Economic Theory from Elsevier |
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