Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93834 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 196
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
We define a generalized state-space model with interactive unawareness and probabilistic beliefs. Such models are desirable for many potential applications of asymmetric unawareness. We develop Bayesian games with unawareness, define equilibrium, and prove existence. We show how equilibria are extended naturally from lower to higher awareness levels and restricted from higher to lower awareness levels. We use our unawareness belief structure to show that the common prior assumption is too weak to rule out speculative trade in all states. Yet, we prove a generalized 'No-trade' theorem according to which there can not be common certainty of strict preference to trade. Moreover, we show a generalization of the 'No-agreeing-to-disagree' theorem.
Subjects: 
unawareness
awareness
type-space
Bayesian games
incomplete information
equilibrium
common prior
agreement
speculative trade
interactive epistemology
JEL: 
C70
C72
D80
D82
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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