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Object-based unawareness: Theory and applications

Paul | Weiss et al.

Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design2022https://doi.org/10.22574/jmid.2022.12.001article
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In this paper and its companion paper, Board & Chung (2021), we provide foundations for a model of unawareness that can be used to distinguish between what an agent is unaware of and what she simply does not know. At an informal level, this distinction plays a key role in a number of recent papers such as Tirole (2009) and Chung & Fortnow (2007). Here we provide a set-theoretic (i.e., non-linguistic) version of our framework. We use our object-based unawareness structures to investigate two applications. The first application provides a justification for the contra proferentem doctrine of contract interpretation, under which ambiguous terms in a contract are construed against the drafter. Our second application examines speculative trade.

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@article{paul2022,
  title        = {{Object-based unawareness: Theory and applications}},
  author       = {Paul | Weiss et al.},
  journal      = {Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design},
  year         = {2022},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.22574/jmid.2022.12.001},
}

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0.34

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.12 × 0.4 = 0.05
M · momentum0.47 × 0.15 = 0.07
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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