On the limits to rational learning.

This paper summarizes recent work of Foster and Young (2001), which shows that some games are unlearnable in principle by perfectly rational players. That is, under any learning rule - including Bayesian updating of common priors - the players' strategies fail to come close to Nash equilibrium with...

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Publicado en:European Economic Review Vol. 46; no. 4/5; pp. 791 - 800
Autor principal: Young, H. Peyton
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Elsevier Science April 2002
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