Pure strategy Markov equilibrium in stochastic games with a continuum of players

2003 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 693-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subir K. Chakrabarti
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (02) ◽  
pp. 2040002
Author(s):  
Reinoud Joosten ◽  
Llea Samuel

Games with endogenous transition probabilities and endogenous stage payoffs (or ETP–ESP games for short) are stochastic games in which both the transition probabilities and the payoffs at any stage are continuous functions of the relative frequencies of all past action combinations chosen. We present methods to compute large sets of jointly-convergent pure-strategy rewards in two-player ETP–ESP games with communicating states under the limiting average reward criterion. Such sets are useful in determining feasible rewards in a game, and instrumental in obtaining the set of (Nash) equilibrium rewards.


1997 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.Ali Khan ◽  
Kali P. Rath ◽  
Yeneng Sun

Econometrica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 1661-1695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dilip Abreu ◽  
Benjamin Brooks ◽  
Yuliy Sannikov

We study the pure‐strategy subgame‐perfect Nash equilibria of stochastic games with perfect monitoring, geometric discounting, and public randomization. We develop novel algorithms for computing equilibrium payoffs, in which we combine policy iteration when incentive constraints are slack with value iteration when incentive constraints bind. We also provide software implementations of our algorithms. Preliminary simulations indicate that they are significantly more efficient than existing methods. The theoretical results that underlie the algorithms also imply bounds on the computational complexity of equilibrium payoffs when there are two players. When there are more than two players, we show by example that the number of extreme equilibrium payoffs may be countably infinite.


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