Statistical Inference as a Bargaining Game

May 20, 2002

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Eduardo Ley. Statistical Inference as a Bargaining Game, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed November 23, 2024

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Summary

This paper extends the analogy, previously established by Learner (1978a), between a Bayesian inference problem and an economics allocation problem to show that posterior modes can be interpreted as optimal outcomes of a bargaining game. This bargaining game, over a parameter value, is played between two players: the researcher (with preferences represented by the prior) and the data (with preferences represented by the likelihood).

Subject: Consumption, Tax incentives

Keywords: Contract curve, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

13
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2002/081
Stock No:

WPIEA0812002
ISBN:

9781451850376
ISSN:

1018-5941

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