Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/148193 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 965
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
We study the implications of flexible adjustment in strategic interactions using a class of finite-horizon models in continuous time. Players take costly actions to affect the evolution of state variables that are commonly observable and perturbed by Brownian noise. The values of these state variables influence players' terminal payoffs at the deadline, as well as their flow payoffs. In contrast to the static case, the equilibrium is unique under a general class of terminal payoff functions. Our characterization of the equilibrium builds on recent developments in the theory of backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). We use this tool to analyze applications, including team production, hold-up problems, and dynamic contests. In a team production model, the unique equilibrium selects an effcient outcome when frictions vanish.
Subjects: 
continuous-time game
gradual adjustment
equilibrium uniqueness
coordination problem
team production
hold-up problem
contest
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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