Artikel
A game-free microfoundation of mutual optimism
One of the most widely accepted explanations for why wars occur despite its Pareto-suboptimality is mutual optimism: if both sides expect to gain a lot by fighting, war becomes inevitable. The literature on mutual optimism typically assumes mutually optimistic beliefs and shows that, under such an assumption, war may occur despite its Pareto-suboptimality. In a war-peace model, we show that, if players neglect the correlation between other players' actions and their types-a well-established concept in economics-then players' expected payoffs from war increase relative to conventional informational sophistication predictions, hence providing a microfoundation of mutual optimism.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: Games ; ISSN: 2073-4336 ; Volume: 10 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 1-14 ; Basel: MDPI
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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correlation neglect
incentives to go to war
information
mutual optimism
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Serena, Marco
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Veröffentlichung
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MDPI
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Basel
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2019
- DOI
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doi:10.3390/g10040037
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Serena, Marco
- MDPI
Entstanden
- 2019
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