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| Title: | | A cooperative value for Bayesian games  |
| Authors: | | Kalai, Adam Kalai, Ehud |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science 1512 |
| Abstract: | | Selfish, strategic players may benefit from cooperation, provided they reach agreement. It is therefore important to construct mechanisms that facilitate such cooperation, especially in the case of asymmetric private information. The two major issues are: (1) singling out a fair and efficient outcome among the many individually rational possibilities in a strategic game, and (2) establishing a play protocol under which strategic players may achieve this outcome. The paper presents a general solution for two-person Bayesian games with monetary payoffs, under a strong revealed-payoff assumption. The proposed solution builds upon earlier concepts in game theory. It coincides with the von Neumann minmax value on the class of zero sum games and with the major solution concepts to the Nash Bargaining Problem. Moreover, the solution is based on a simple decomposition of every game into cooperative and competitive components, which is easy to compute. |
| Subjects: | | cooperative game theory non- cooperative game theory bargaining min-max value |
| JEL: | | C70 C71 C72 C78 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Discussion Papers, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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