We built a time-consistent cooperative solution for the class of dynamic games played over event trees in the context where the tree structure is given, but the players have different beliefs about the transition probabilities between nodes. Our three-step approach is as follows. First, we consider three alternative methods for aggregating the players’ beliefs and assume that the players agree to adopt one of them if they decide to cooperate. Second, we determine the Nash bargaining outcomes for the whole duration of the game. Finally, to insure sustainability of cooperation throughout the whole duration of the game, we propose two time-consistent decompositions over nodes of each player’s cooperative share, namely a proportion-consistent and a node-consistent allocation schemes. We illustrate our results with a simple Cournot oligopoly with capacity constraints.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)92-120
Number of pages29
JournalJournal of Optimization Theory and Applications
Volume194
Issue number1
Early online date23 Feb 2022
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2022

    Research areas

  • Asymmetric information, Belief aggregation, Event tree, Nash bargaining solution, S-adapted strategies, Stochastic games, CONSISTENT SHAPLEY VALUE, STABILITY, EQUILIBRIUM

    Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Optimization
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Management Science and Operations Research

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