Finance Applications of Game Theory

Franklin Allen and Stephen Morris

Center for Financial Institutions Working Papers from Wharton School Center for Financial Institutions, University of Pennsylvania

Abstract: Traditional finance theory based on the assumptions of symmetric information and perfect and competitive markets has provided many important insights. These include the Modigliani and Miller Theorems, the CAPM, the Efficient Markets Hypothesis and continuous time finance. However, many empirical phenomena are difficult to reconcile with this traditional framework. Game theoretic techniques have allowed insights into a number of these. Many puzzles remain. This paper argues that recent advances in game theory concerned with higher order beliefs, informational cascades and heterogeneous prior beliefs have the potential to provide insights into some of these remaining puzzles.

Date: 1998-09
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Downloads: (external link)
http://fic.wharton.upenn.edu/fic/papers/98/9823.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://fic.wharton.upenn.edu/fic/papers/98/9823.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://wifpr.wharton.upenn.edu/fic/papers/98/9823.pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Finance Applications of Game Theory (1998)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wop:pennin:98-23

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Center for Financial Institutions Working Papers from Wharton School Center for Financial Institutions, University of Pennsylvania Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Thomas Krichel ().