Repeated two-person zero-sum games with unequal discounting and private monitoring

We consider discounted repeated two-person zero-sum games with private monitoring. We show that even when players have different and time-varying discount factors, each player’s payoff is equal to his stage-game minmax payoff in every sequential equilibrium. Furthermore, we show that: (a) in every h...

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Autor principal: Carmona, G. (author)
Outros Autores: Carvalho, L. (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2016
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10071/12204
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/12204
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Resumo:We consider discounted repeated two-person zero-sum games with private monitoring. We show that even when players have different and time-varying discount factors, each player’s payoff is equal to his stage-game minmax payoff in every sequential equilibrium. Furthermore, we show that: (a) in every history on the equilibrium path, the pair formed by each player’s conjecture about his opponent’s action must be a Nash equilibrium of the stage game, and (b) the distribution of action profiles in every period is a correlated equilibrium of the stage game. In the particular case of public strategies in public monitoring games, players must play a Nash equilibrium after any public history.