常规合同

Conventional Contracts

Review of Economic Studies · 1998
被引 73
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

研究“常规合同”的形成过程:在大型群体中,代理人通过重复互动和适应性学习,最终倾向于选择既有效率又公平(卡莱-斯莫罗丁斯基解)的合同。

Abstract

A "conventional" contract is a contract that each side of a bargain expects the other side to insist on, because it is standard and customary under the circumstances. We consider a process of convention formation in which agents' expectations evolve through repeated interactions in a large-population setting. Agents choose best replies given their knowledge of the precedents, subject to some inertia and random error in their choice behaviour. Over the long run, this adaptive learning process tends to select contracts that are efficient, and egalitarian in the sense that the payoffs are centrally located on the efficiency frontier of the payoff possibility set. When the payoffs form a convex, comprehensive bargaining set, the process selects the Kalai-Smorodinsky solution.

惯例合同惯例形成适应性学习卡莱-斯莫罗丁斯基解