Two-Person Cooperative Games with delta-Rationality

Fang-Fang Tang, Yongsheng Xu

2025-06-19

Abstract

A player's payoff is modeled as consisting of two parts: a rational-value part and a distortion-value part. It is argued that the (total) payoff function should be used to explain and predict the behaviors of the players, while the rational value function should be used to conduct welfare analysis of the final outcome. We use the Nash demand game to illustrate our model.