一方信息不完全的重复博弈

Repeated games with incomplete information on one side

Theoretical Economics · 2008
被引 13
人大 AABS 4

中文导读

研究一方信息不完全的重复博弈,定义有限揭示均衡和ICR策略,证明当玩家有耐心时,所有纳什均衡收益可由有限揭示均衡收益逼近,并给出均衡收益集的几何刻画。

Abstract

This paper studies repeated games with incomplete information on one side and equal discount factors for both players. The payoffs of the informed player I depend on one of two possible states of the world, which is known to her. The payoffs of the uninformed player U do not depend on the state of the world (that is, U knows his payoffs), but player I's behavior makes knowledge of the state of interest to player U. We define a finitely revealing equilibrium as a Bayesian perfect equilibrium where player I reveals information in a bounded number of periods. We define an ICR profile as a strategy profile in which (a) after each history the players have individually rational payoffs and (b) no type of player I wants to mimic the behavior of the other type. We show that when the players are patient, all Nash equilibrium payoffs in the repeated game can be approximated by payoffs in finitely revealing equilibria, which themselves approximate the set of all ICR payoffs. We provide a geometric characterization of the set of equilibrium payoffs, which can be used for computations.

不完全信息重复博弈知情方有限揭示均衡ICR策略组合