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Truthful Equilibria in Dynamic Bayesian Games

Publication Date: December 2013

Revision Date: January 2015

Pages: 75

Abstract: 

This paper characterizes an equilibrium payoff subset for dynamic Bayesian games as discounting vanishes. Monitoring is imperfect, transitions may depend on actions, types may be correlated and values may be interdependent. The focus is on equilibria in which players report truthfully. The characterization generalizes that for repeated games, reducing the analysis to static Bayesian games with transfers. With independent private values, the restriction to truthful equilibria is without loss, except for the punishment level; if players withhold their information during punishment-like phases, a folk theorem obtains.

Keywords: 

Bayesian games, Repeated games, Folk theorem

JEL Classification Codes:  C72, C73

See CFP: 1496

Note: 

Published in Econometrica (September 2015), 83(5): 1795-1848