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We study a class of two-player repeated games with incomplete information and informational externalities. In these games, two states are chosen at the outset, and players get private information on the pair, before engaging in repeated…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-27 Dinah Rosenberg , Eilon Solan , Nicolas Vieille

Similar to the role of Markov decision processes in reinforcement learning, Stochastic Games (SGs) lay the foundation for the study of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) and sequential agent interactions. In this paper, we derive…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Xiaotie Deng , Ningyuan Li , David Mguni , Jun Wang , Yaodong Yang

We study $n$-player turn-based games played on a finite directed graph. For each play, the players have to pay a cost that they want to minimize. Instead of the well-known notion of Nash equilibrium (NE), we focus on the notion of subgame…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Thomas Brihaye , Véronique Bruyère , Noémie Meunier , Jean-François Raskin

This paper studies a multi-player, general-sum stochastic game characterized by a dual-stage temporal structure per period. The agents face uncertainty regarding the time-evolving state that is realized at the beginning of each period.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Tao Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium (PBE) is a refinement of the Nash equilibrium for imperfect-information extensive-form games (EFGs) that enforces consistency between the two components of a solution: agents' strategy profile describing their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Christine Konicki , Mithun Chakraborty , Michael P. Wellman

We study multiplayer reachability games played on a finite directed graph equipped with target sets, one for each player. In those reachability games, it is known that there always exists a Nash equilibrium (NE) and a subgame perfect…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Thomas Brihaye , Véronique Bruyère , Aline Goeminne , Nathan Thomasset

We consider 2-player stochastic games with perfectly observed actions, and study the limit, as the discount factor goes to one, of the equilibrium payoffs set. In the usual setup where current states are observed by the players, we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-11 Jérôme Renault , Bruno Ziliotto

We consider a model of oligopolistic competition in a market with search frictions, in which competing firms with products of unknown quality advertise how much information a consumer's visit will glean. In the unique symmetric equilibrium…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Pak Hung Au , Mark Whitmeyer

How does competition in markets for information affect the creation and division of surplus? We study this question in a search environment in which an agent searches sequentially for a high-quality good and learns about the quality of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-26 Teddy Mekonnen , Bobak Pakzad-Hurson

We develop inference for a two-sided matching model where the characteristics of agents on one side of the market are endogenous due to pre-matching investments. The model can be used to measure the impact of frictions in labour markets…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-08-28 Jacob Schwartz

Market equilibria of matching markets offer an intuitive and fair solution for matching problems without money with agents who have preferences over the items. Such a matching market can be viewed as a variation of Fisher market, albeit…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Saeed Alaei , Pooya Jalaly , Eva Tardos

The Stackelberg equilibrium solution concept describes optimal strategies to commit to: Player 1 (termed the leader) publicly commits to a strategy and Player 2 (termed the follower) plays a best response to this strategy (ties are broken…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Branislav Bosansky , Simina Branzei , Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen , Peter Bro Miltersen , Troels Bjerre Sorensen

This paper analyzes a steady state matching model interrelating the education and labor sectors. In this model, a heterogeneous population of students match with teachers to enhance their cognitive skills. As adults, they then choose to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-25 Alice Erlinger , Robert J. McCann , Xianwen Shi , Aloysius Siow , Ronald Wolthoff

As part of an effort to apply the rigorous guarantees of formal verification to multi-agent systems, the field of equilibrium analysis, also called rational verification, studies equilibria in multiplayer games to reason about system-level…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Senthil Rajasekaran , Jean-François Raskin , Moshe Y. Vardi

We consider the problem of dynamic information design with one sender and one receiver where the sender observers a private state of the system and takes an action to send a signal based on its observation to a receiver. Based on this…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-05-18 Deepanshu Vasal

We consider a scheduling game on parallel related machines, in which jobs try to minimize their completion time by choosing a machine to be processed on. Each machine uses an individual priority list to decide on the order according to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Vipin Ravindran Vijayalakshmi , Marc Schröder , Tami Tamir

We construct subgame-perfect equilibria with mixed strategies for symmetric stochastic timing games with arbitrary strategic incentives. The strategies are qualitatively different for local first- or second-mover advantages, which we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Jan-Henrik Steg

In a stable matching setting, we consider a query model that allows for an interactive learning algorithm to make precisely one type of query: proposing a matching, the response to which is either that the proposed matching is stable, or a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Ehsan Emamjomeh-Zadeh , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , David Kempe

We study dynamic decentralized two-sided matching in which players may encounter unanticipated experiences. As they become aware of these experiences, they may change their preferences over players on the other side of the market.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-05-14 Burkhard C. Schipper , Tina Danting Zhang

Machine learning has grown in popularity to help assign resources and make decisions about users, which can result in discrimination. This includes hiring markets, where employers have increasingly been interested in using automated tools…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Serafina Kamp , Benjamin Fish