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... that each of those strategies yields the same expected payoff • Thus the player is indifferent about which strategy is played • This indifference will occur when other players are mixing over their own strategies in the appropriate way ...
... that each of those strategies yields the same expected payoff • Thus the player is indifferent about which strategy is played • This indifference will occur when other players are mixing over their own strategies in the appropriate way ...
Perfect competition in asymmetric information economies: compatibility of efficiency and incentives 夡
... or not one can introduce asymmetric or private information 2 on the Aumann economy, and still be able to capture the meaning of perfect competition. Notice that once private information is introduced in the Aumann model, an agent may have monopoly power on her information, and thus may have an incen ...
... or not one can introduce asymmetric or private information 2 on the Aumann economy, and still be able to capture the meaning of perfect competition. Notice that once private information is introduced in the Aumann model, an agent may have monopoly power on her information, and thus may have an incen ...
Continuous and Discontinuous Games
... There are many games in which the utility functions are not continuous (e.g. price competi tion models, congestion-competition models). For such games existence of a mixed strategy equilibrium can be established under some assumptions by using an existence result by Das gupta and Maskin [1]-[2]. F ...
... There are many games in which the utility functions are not continuous (e.g. price competi tion models, congestion-competition models). For such games existence of a mixed strategy equilibrium can be established under some assumptions by using an existence result by Das gupta and Maskin [1]-[2]. F ...
Future Event Logic – Axioms and Complexity
... Example 3.7 [Knowledge and belief] Given are two agents that are uncertain about the value of a fact p, and where this is common knowledge, and where p is true. We assume that both accessibility relations are equivalence relations, and that the epistemic operators model the agents’ knowledge. An inf ...
... Example 3.7 [Knowledge and belief] Given are two agents that are uncertain about the value of a fact p, and where this is common knowledge, and where p is true. We assume that both accessibility relations are equivalence relations, and that the epistemic operators model the agents’ knowledge. An inf ...
1 Model with Time-Consistent Agents
... bias, the government is indifferent between implementing a conditional commitment mechanism or a betting mechanism, which would both achieve the same optimal allocation and welfare regardless of the sophistication level of the TI agents. Thus, the question is whether it is in the best interest of th ...
... bias, the government is indifferent between implementing a conditional commitment mechanism or a betting mechanism, which would both achieve the same optimal allocation and welfare regardless of the sophistication level of the TI agents. Thus, the question is whether it is in the best interest of th ...
Rationality authority for provable rational behavior
... for computing the game equilibrium and verify it (Sect. 5). – We study competitive on-line games in which each agent joins the game at a different time (as in [12]). The game inventor keeps statistical information about past agent actions. Each agent, upon arrival, has to choose a strategy. With prob ...
... for computing the game equilibrium and verify it (Sect. 5). – We study competitive on-line games in which each agent joins the game at a different time (as in [12]). The game inventor keeps statistical information about past agent actions. Each agent, upon arrival, has to choose a strategy. With prob ...
Static Games
... benefit if someone calls the police is X cost of calling the police is 1 Assumption: X Look for symmetric mixed strategy equilibrium where p is probability of each person calling the police ...
... benefit if someone calls the police is X cost of calling the police is 1 Assumption: X Look for symmetric mixed strategy equilibrium where p is probability of each person calling the police ...
Topics in Logic and Complexity Lecture 1 What is This Course About
... If we interchange accepting and rejecting states in a deterministic machine that accepts the language L, we get one that accepts L. If a language L ∈ P, then also L ∈ P. Complexity classes defined in terms of nondeterministic machine models are not necessarily closed under complementation of ...
... If we interchange accepting and rejecting states in a deterministic machine that accepts the language L, we get one that accepts L. If a language L ∈ P, then also L ∈ P. Complexity classes defined in terms of nondeterministic machine models are not necessarily closed under complementation of ...
Mechanism Design for Daily Deals
... other bidders under the condition that a fixed number of effective impressions (denoted as a) are allocated to bidder i. Φ−i (a) can be easily calculated by calling DP-CAP and setting all its states with xi 6= a to negative infinity. Then for each allocation a ∈ {0, li , li + 1, ..., xi (vi )}, the ...
... other bidders under the condition that a fixed number of effective impressions (denoted as a) are allocated to bidder i. Φ−i (a) can be easily calculated by calling DP-CAP and setting all its states with xi 6= a to negative infinity. Then for each allocation a ∈ {0, li , li + 1, ..., xi (vi )}, the ...
Lifted Backward Search for General Game Playing
... evaluating the player’s utility for that terminal state. This is called a rollout. Repeating this many times and averaging the utility values returned by these rollouts yields an estimation of the true utility value of the state w. Unfortunately, since these rollouts are random, one needs to perform ...
... evaluating the player’s utility for that terminal state. This is called a rollout. Repeating this many times and averaging the utility values returned by these rollouts yields an estimation of the true utility value of the state w. Unfortunately, since these rollouts are random, one needs to perform ...
Information Aggregation and Large Auctions
... A problem with the above mechanism is that it does not use information well at all. The rationing stage is assumed to be independent of the true valuations of the traders. This is essential to get the mechanism to have the dominant strategy solution. It is clear that efficient rationing would do a m ...
... A problem with the above mechanism is that it does not use information well at all. The rationing stage is assumed to be independent of the true valuations of the traders. This is essential to get the mechanism to have the dominant strategy solution. It is clear that efficient rationing would do a m ...
A Framework for Reasoning about Rational Agents
... The “absolute” satisfaction relation |= is given by |=Σ . Note that an ordinary concurrent game structure (without plausibility) can be interpreted as a CGSP with all strategy profiles assumed plausible, i.e., with Υ = Σ. This way, satisfaction of ATLP formulae can be extended to ordinary CGS. We sa ...
... The “absolute” satisfaction relation |= is given by |=Σ . Note that an ordinary concurrent game structure (without plausibility) can be interpreted as a CGSP with all strategy profiles assumed plausible, i.e., with Υ = Σ. This way, satisfaction of ATLP formulae can be extended to ordinary CGS. We sa ...
Pareto Optima and Competitive Equilibria with Adverse Selection
... utilities subject to the incentive-compatibility conditions and resource constraints, a concave programming problem. This result is then used to characterize the optima for both the adverse-selection insurance and the private-information labor market economy. It is established as a by-product that t ...
... utilities subject to the incentive-compatibility conditions and resource constraints, a concave programming problem. This result is then used to characterize the optima for both the adverse-selection insurance and the private-information labor market economy. It is established as a by-product that t ...
Mechanism Design and Truthful Algorithms
... Mechanism Design Mechanism design is about designing games in which some desired objective is achieved when all players play selfishly. Reverse game theory: Rather than analyzing a given game, design one that fits your needs. In this talk, we will see several mechanisms where the best strategy is t ...
... Mechanism Design Mechanism design is about designing games in which some desired objective is achieved when all players play selfishly. Reverse game theory: Rather than analyzing a given game, design one that fits your needs. In this talk, we will see several mechanisms where the best strategy is t ...
Game Theory EconC31
... Instead of sending the report r = r(t), she sends the report r’= r(t+b), which induces the action y = t+b. Hence, r is not sequentially rational, and cannot be part of a PBE. ...
... Instead of sending the report r = r(t), she sends the report r’= r(t+b), which induces the action y = t+b. Hence, r is not sequentially rational, and cannot be part of a PBE. ...
Negotiation joint plans/schedules for agents Worth
... • Learnt opponent eagerness, , will affect to opportunity. • The probability that buyer agent a will obtain a utility v, with seller agent b: ...
... • Learnt opponent eagerness, , will affect to opportunity. • The probability that buyer agent a will obtain a utility v, with seller agent b: ...
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... combination of high-powered incentives and limited liability in newly securitized markets led to agency problems that created systemic risk. Indeed, with the context of the early Noughties in mind, a founding father of the agency-theoretic approach to corporate governance, Michael Jensen (2007), has ...
... combination of high-powered incentives and limited liability in newly securitized markets led to agency problems that created systemic risk. Indeed, with the context of the early Noughties in mind, a founding father of the agency-theoretic approach to corporate governance, Michael Jensen (2007), has ...
Correlated information structures and optimal auctions
... The timing is as follows. The principal publicly commits to a correlated information structure and a selling mechanism. Then a pair of information structures (Π1k1 , Π2k2 ) is drawn according to the correlation strategy. Agents do not observe which information structures are drawn, but each agent i ...
... The timing is as follows. The principal publicly commits to a correlated information structure and a selling mechanism. Then a pair of information structures (Π1k1 , Π2k2 ) is drawn according to the correlation strategy. Agents do not observe which information structures are drawn, but each agent i ...
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... Given n players, each player i has a set of actions Si . Cost function for each player i is defined as follows: ci : S → R Nash-Equilibrium is a state when none of the players can increase his utility by a one-sided deviation, if all others remain in their previous choice. Let’s assume that we have ...
... Given n players, each player i has a set of actions Si . Cost function for each player i is defined as follows: ci : S → R Nash-Equilibrium is a state when none of the players can increase his utility by a one-sided deviation, if all others remain in their previous choice. Let’s assume that we have ...
Multi-unit auctions with budget
... with a non-zero risk of going over the budget. An auction mechanism solicits a two-parameter bid from each agent. The first parameter is interpreted as that agent’s announced utility per unit and the second parameter is that agent’s announced budget. The mechanism then outputs an allocation and paym ...
... with a non-zero risk of going over the budget. An auction mechanism solicits a two-parameter bid from each agent. The first parameter is interpreted as that agent’s announced utility per unit and the second parameter is that agent’s announced budget. The mechanism then outputs an allocation and paym ...
Comparative Statics in Principal#Agent Problems
... This paper provides a number of general results which do not involve the assumptions of either the …rst-order approach or the linear contracts approach. It does so by applying results from the theory of monotone comparative statics (Milgrom and Shannon (1994)) to the Grossman-Hart model of the princ ...
... This paper provides a number of general results which do not involve the assumptions of either the …rst-order approach or the linear contracts approach. It does so by applying results from the theory of monotone comparative statics (Milgrom and Shannon (1994)) to the Grossman-Hart model of the princ ...
DoshiAIPR07 - University Of Georgia
... 1. Use the other agent's model to predict its action(s) 2. Anticipate the other agent's observations and how it updates its beliefs 3. Use own observations to correct the beliefs ...
... 1. Use the other agent's model to predict its action(s) 2. Anticipate the other agent's observations and how it updates its beliefs 3. Use own observations to correct the beliefs ...
Chapter 10
... smoking. In the study, half of the subjects were randomly assigned to receive up to $750 for quitting smoking for a year while the other half were simply encouraged to use traditional methods to stop smoking. None of the 878 volunteers knew that there was a financial incentive when they signed up. A ...
... smoking. In the study, half of the subjects were randomly assigned to receive up to $750 for quitting smoking for a year while the other half were simply encouraged to use traditional methods to stop smoking. None of the 878 volunteers knew that there was a financial incentive when they signed up. A ...
How do you like your equilibrium selection problems? Hard, or very
... the problem is PPAD-hard, simply due to the PPAD-completeness of finding any equilibrium, but in fact we show that restricting to the Lemke-Howson solutions makes the problem PSPACE-complete, and thus in a sense even harder to compute than the restricted equilibria of [6, 3]. Homotopy methods The su ...
... the problem is PPAD-hard, simply due to the PPAD-completeness of finding any equilibrium, but in fact we show that restricting to the Lemke-Howson solutions makes the problem PSPACE-complete, and thus in a sense even harder to compute than the restricted equilibria of [6, 3]. Homotopy methods The su ...