Game Theory Stochastics, Information, Strategies and Cooperation

Game Theory: Stochastics, Information, Strategies and Cooperation provides a discussion of some relevant topics in game theory. It is composed partially from material compiled by Professor Joachim Rosenmüller when lecturing at IMW, the Institute of Mathem

  • PDF / 44,494,559 Bytes
  • 668 Pages / 439.37 x 666.142 pts Page_size
  • 73 Downloads / 229 Views

DOWNLOAD

REPORT


THEORY AND DECISION LffiRARY General Editors: W. Leinfellner (Vienna) and G. Eberlein (Munich) Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences Series B: Mathematical and Statistical Methods Series C: Game Theory, Mathematical Programming and Operations Research Series D: System Theory, Knowledge Engineering an Problem Solving

SERIES C: GAME THEORY, MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH VOLUME 25

Editor: S. H. Tijs (University of Tilburg); Editorial Board: E.E.C. van Damme (Tilburg), H. Keiding (Copenhagen), J.-F. Mertens (Louvain-la-Neuve), H. Moulin (Durham), S. Muto (Tokyo University), T. Parthasarathy (New Delhi), B. Peleg (Jerusalem), H. Peters (Maastricht), T. E. S. Raghavan (Chicago), J. Rosenmiiller (Bielefeld), A. Roth (Pittsburgh), D. Schmeidler (TelAviv), R. Selten (Bonn), W. Thomson (Rochester, NY). Scope: Particular attention is paid in this series to game theory and operations research, their formal aspects and their applications to economic, political and social sciences as well as to sociobiology. It will encourage high standards in the application of game-theoretical methods to individual and social decision making.

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

GAME THEORY Stochastics, Information, Strategies and Cooperation by

JOACHIM ROSENMULLER University of Bielefeld

SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

A c.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-1-4419-5114-4 ISBN 978-1-4757-3212-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-3212-2

Printed on acid-free paper

AII Rights Reserved © 2000 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Origina11y published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston in 2000 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permis sion from the copyright owner.

Contents IX

Preface . . . . . . 1 Prerequisites

1

1

Probability and Integration

4

2

Conditional Expectation . .

17

3

Products and Markovian Measures

28

4

Stochastic Kernels

44

5

Common Knowledge

49

2 Stochastic Games and Incomplete Information

61

1

Markovian Games and Behavioral Strategies

64

2

Mixed Strategies and Kuhn's Theorem

92

3

Stopping Times . . . . . . . . . . .

110

4

Imperfect Information: Tree Games

116

5

Incomplete Information: Stochastic Games

140

6

Sequential Equilibria

169

7

The Trembling Hand

193

3 Stochastic Games: Infinite Horizon

211

1

The Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

· 213

2

The Stationary Case: Value Iteration

· 218

3

Remarks on Martingales and Equilibrium Strategies

.228

4

Discounted Payoffs . . ..

· 232

........... . V

*

VI

CONTENTS

*

5

Tauberian Theorems . . . . . .

.240

6

The Asymptotic Behavior of VO

· 251

7

The Big Match . . . . . . . . .

.268

8

Stochastic Games have a Value

.280

4 Folk Theorems

299

1

Supergames.........