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Lying for Strategic Advantage: Rational and Boundedly Rational Misrepresentation of Intentions
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Starting from an example of the Allies' decision to feint at Calais and attack Normandy on D-Day, this paper models misrepresentation of intentions to competitors or enemies. Allowing for the possibility of bounded strategic rationality and rational players' responses to it yields a sensible account of lying via costless, noiseless messages. In some leading cases, the model has generically unique pure-strategy sequential equilibria, in which rational players exploit boundedly rational players, but are not themselves fooled. In others, the model has generically essentially unique mixed-strategy sequential equilibria, in which rational players' strategies protect all players from exploitation.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Crawford, V. P.
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2003-02-01
- Volume
- 93
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 133-149
- ISSN
- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2029387133
- Cited by
- 391
- References
- 28
- FWCI
- 19.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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