Splitting games over finite sets
Journal article: This paper studies zero-sum splitting games with finite sets of states. Players dynamically choose a pair of martingales {pt,qt}t, in order to control a terminal payoff u(p∞,q∞). A first part introduces the notion of “Mertens–Zamir transform" of a real-valued matrix and use it to approximate the solution of the Mertens–Zamir system for continuous functions on the square [0,1]2. A second part considers the general case of finite splitting games with arbitrary correspondences containing the Dirac mass on the current state: building on Laraki and Renault (Math Oper Res 45:1237–1257, 2020), we show that the value exists by constructing non Markovian ε-optimal strategies and we characterize it as the unique concave-convex function satisfying two new conditions.
Author(s)
Frédéric Koessler, Marie Laclau, Jérôme Renault, Tristan Tomala
Journal
- Mathematical Programming
Date of publication
- 2024
Keywords JEL
Keywords
- Splitting games
- Mertens-Zamir system
- Repeated games with incomplete information
- Bayesian persuasion
- Information design
Pages
- 477–498
URL of the HAL notice
Version
- 1
Volume
- 203