Unawareness - A Gentle Introduction to both the Literature and the Special Issue

Burkhard Schipper

No 153, Working Papers from University of California, Davis, Department of Economics

Abstract: This article provides a brief survey of the literature on unawareness and introduces the contributions to the special issue on unawareness in Mathematical Social Sciences. First, we provide a brief overview both about epistemic models of unawareness and models of extensive-form games with unawareness. Instead of introducing the approaches in full detail, we illustrate the main differences and similarities with the help of examples. Finally, we discuss the contributions to the special issue on unawareness.

Keywords: Unawareness; awareness; incomplete information; knowledge; belief; extensive-form games (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C70 D80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18
Date: 2014-02-26
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