Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/94082 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 313
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
Abstract: In the dynamic game we analyze, players are the members of a ?xed network. Everyone is initially endowed with an information item that he is the only player to hold. Players are offered a ?nite number of periods to centralize the initially dispersed items in the hands of any one member of the network. In every period, each agent strategically chooses whether or not to transmit the items he holds to his neighbors in the network. The sooner all the items are gathered by any individual, the better it is for the group of players as a whole. Besides, the agent who ?rst centralizes all the items is offered an additional reward that he keeps for himself. In this framework where information transmission is strategic and physically restricted, we provide a necessary and suffcient condition for a group to pool information items in every equilibrium. This condition is independent of the network structure. The architecture of links however affects the time needed before items are centralized in equilibrium.
Subjects: 
communication network
communication dilemma
dynamic network game
strategic
JEL: 
D83
C72
L22
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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