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. The author considers a process of convention formation in which agents expectations evolve through repeated interactions in a...

The author shows how a group of individuals can learn to play a coordination game without any common knowledge and with only a small amount of rationality. The game is repeated many times by different players. Each player chooses an optimal reply based on incomplete information about what other...