Thomas R. Palfrey
Professor of Economics and Political Science
        California Institute of Technology
                  
      
    at time of fellowship
              2014 to 2015
      
    Palfrey will write a book on Quantal Response Equilibrium (QRE) and its applications to the social sciences. Developed by Palfrey and Richard McKelvey, QRE is a game theory concept that is now one of the leading approaches to modeling bounded rationality—the idea that individuals’ rationality is limited by the information they have—in games.