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Information Structures in Economics

Studies in the Theory of Markets with Imperfect Information

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  • © 1982

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Authors:
  1. Manfred Nermuth

    1. Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (LNE, volume 196)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Manfred Nermuth
      Pages 1-11

  3. Preliminaries

    1. Information Structures

      • Manfred Nermuth
      Pages 12-29

    2. Examples of Information Structures

      • Manfred Nermuth
      Pages 30-44

    3. Some Game Theory

      • Manfred Nermuth
      Pages 45-52

  4. Oligopolistic Markets with Imperfectly Informed Buyers

    1. The Basic Model

      • Manfred Nermuth
      Pages 53-70

    2. Symmetric Market Structure with n Firms

      • Manfred Nermuth
      Pages 71-89

    3. Asymmetric Duopoly

      • Manfred Nermuth
      Pages 90-110

    4. Judging Quality by Price

      • Manfred Nermuth
      Pages 111-147

  5. Sequential Futures Markets

    1. The Model and Some Basic Properties

      • Manfred Nermuth
      Pages 148-182

    2. The Value of Information in Sequential Futures Markets

      • Manfred Nermuth
      Pages 183-211

    3. Generalizations

      • Manfred Nermuth
      Pages 212-228

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 229-240
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This book is intended as a contribution to the theory of markets with imperfect information. The subject being nearly limitless, only certain selected topics are discussed. These are outlined in the Introduction (Ch. 0). The remainder of the book is divided into three parts. All results of economic significance are contained in Parts II & III. Part I introduces the main tools for the analysis, in particular the concept of an information structure. Although most of the material presented in Part I is not original, it is hoped that the detailed and self-contained exposition will help the reader to understand not only the following pages, but also the existing technical and variegated literature on markets with imperfect information. The mathematical prerequisites needed, but not explained in the text rarely go beyond elementary calculus and probability theory. Whenever more advanced concepts are used, I have made an effort to give an intuitive explanation as well, so that the argument can also be followed on a non-technical level (cf. e.g. the treatment of the "generic" viewpoint in Ch. 9). In the same spirit, discussion of mathematical assumptions is limited to those which have economic sig- ficance, whereas purely "technical" assumptions (like differentiability or integrability of certain functions) are usually made without comment whenever convenient. The logical interdependence of chapters is as follows: Ch. 3 . Ch. 1 /~I--=---- Ch. 4 Ch. 2 Ch. 8 ~I -=--- /"'-.... Ch.

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  • Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

    Manfred Nermuth

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