Universal Type Spaces with Unawareness
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This paper aims to provide foundations for games with unawareness by constructing a universal type space for beliefs and propositional unawareness, which nests the universal belief type space of Mertens and Zamir (1985). The type spaces are purely measurable, with no topological structure, but a topology can easily be added. Unawareness of agents and higher-order reasoning permits a similar construction of a universal type space as propositional unawareness.
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