The theory of global games has shown that coordination games with multiple equilibria may have a unique equilibrium if certain parameters of the payoff function are private information instead of common knowledge. We report the results of an experiment designed to test the predictions of this...

This paper proposes a method to measure strategic uncertainty by eliciting certainty equivalents analogous to measuring risk attitudes in lotteries. We apply this method by conducting experiments on a class of one-shot coordination games with strategic complementarities and choices between...

Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Modelle, in denen die endogenen Variablen von Erwartungen über diese Variablen abhängen, durch Annahmen an die Informationen der Marktteilnehmer geschlossen werden können. Dazu wird ein Rahmenmodell entwickelt, welches nichtkooperative Spiele als Spezialfall...

This volume investigates different aspects of monetary policy and prevention of financial crises. It discusses some recently suggested measures for central banks' responses to liquidity shortages and to the liquidity trap, methods for assessing the potential of crisis contagion via the interbank...