Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56354 
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Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance No. 728
Publisher: 
Stockholm School of Economics, The Economic Research Institute (EFI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
This paper studies the evolution of peoples' models of how other people think - their theories of mind. First, this is formalized within the level-k model, which postulates a hierarchy of types, such that type k plays a k times iterated best response to the uniform distribution. It is found that, under plausible conditions, lower types co-exist with higher types. The results are extended to a model of learning, in which type k plays a k times iterated best response the average of past play. The model is also extended to allow for partial observability of the opponent's type.
Subjects: 
Theory of Mind
Depth of Reasoning
Evolution
Learning
Level-k
Fictitious Play
Cognitive Hierarchy
JEL: 
C72
C73
D01
D03
D83
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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