Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/103900 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 469
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
This paper studies strongly symmetric equilibria (SSE) in continuous-time games of strategic experimentation with Poisson bandits. SSE payoffs can be studied via two functional equations similar to the HJB equation used for Markov equilibria. This is valuable for three reasons. First, these equations retain the tractability of Markov equilibrium, while allowing for punishments and rewards: the best and worst equilibrium payoff are explicitly solved for. Second, they capture behavior of the discrete-time game: as the period length goes to zero in the discretized game, the SSE payoff set converges to their solution. Third, they encompass a large payoff set: there is no perfect Bayesian equilibrium in the discrete-time game with frequent interactions with higher asymptotic efficiency.
Subjects: 
Two-Armed Bandit
Bayesian Learning
Strategic Experimentation
Strongly Symmetric Equilibrium
JEL: 
C73
D83
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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