We prove the existence of the maxmin of zero-sum recursive games with one sided information.

We present a complete picture of the relationship between the existence of 0-optimal strategies and ε-optimal strategies, ε>0, in the classes of stationary, Markov and history dependent strategies. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002

We present a complete picture of the relationship between the existence of 0-optimal strategies and ε-optimal strategies, ε>0, in the classes of stationary, Markov and history dependent strategies. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002

The general idea of the proof is to define a class of sets, the solvable sets, which can safely be thought of as absorbing states.

We model the process of knowledge transmission among firms via workers mobility as a multi-stage game. In our setup an idea to be realized needs that the agent informed about the idea recruits another agent from a pool of uninformed people. This constraint generates a recursive effect of...

This article considers an asymmetric contest with incomplete information. There are two types of players: informed and uninformed. Each player has a different ability to translate effort into performance in terms of the contest success function. While one player’s type is known to both...

This paper investigates a signaling entry deterrence model under learning-by-doing. We show that a monopolist’s practice of entry deterrence imposes smaller welfare losses (or larger welfare gains) when learning effects are present than when they are absent, making the intervention of...

In many contest situations, such as R&D competition and rent seeking, participants’ costs are private information. We report the results of an experimental study of bidding in contests under different information and symmetry conditions about players’ costs of effort. The theory predicts...

We consider the portfolio optimization problem for the criterion of maximization of expected terminal log-utility. The underlying market model is a regime-switching diffusion model where the regime is determined by an unobservable factor process forming a finite state Markov process. The main...