Eilon Solan

Game Theory: The bargaining set

Chapter summary In this chapter we present the bargaining set, which is a set solution concept for coalitional games. The idea behind the bargaining set is that when the players consider how to divide the worth of a coalition among themselves, a player who is unsatisfied with the suggested imputation can object to it. An objection , which is directed against another player, roughly claims: “I deserve more than my suggested share and you should transfer part of your suggested share to me because …” The player against whom the objection is made may or may not have a counterobjection . An objection that meets with no counterobjection is a justified objection . The bargaining set consists of all imputations in which no player has a justified objection against any other player. It follows from the definition of an objection that in any imputation in the core no player has an objection, and therefore the core is always a subset of the bargaining set. It is proved that contrary to the core, the bargaining set is never empty. In convex games the bargaining set coincides with the core. In Chapter 17 we noted that the core, as a solution concept for coalitional games, suffers from a significant drawback: in many cases, the conditions that the core must satisfy are too strong, and as a result, there is no imputation that satisfies all of them.

Game Theory: Index

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Game Theory: Notations

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Game Theory: Contents

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Game Theory: Frontmatter

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Game Theory: Acknowledgments

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Game Theory: The Shapley value

Chapter summary This chapter presents the Shapley value, which is one of the two most important single-valued solution concepts for coalitional games. It assigns to every coalitional game an imputation, which represents the payoff that each player can expect to obtain from participating in the game. The Shapley value is defined by an axiomatic approach: it is the unique solution concept that satisfies the efficiency, symmetry, null player, and additivity properties. An explicit formula is provided for the Shapley value of a coalitional game, as a linear function of the worths of the various coalitions. A second characterization, due to Peyton Young, involves a marginality property that replaces the additivity and null player properties. The Shapley value of a convex game turns out to be an element of the core of the game, which implies in particular that the core of a convex game is nonempty. Similar to the core, the Shapley value is consistent: it satisfies a reduced game property, with respect to the Hart–Mas-Colell definition of the reduced game. When applied to simple games, the Shapley value is known as the Shapley–Shubik power index and it is widely used in political science as a measure of the power distribution in committees. This chapter studies the Shapley value , a single-valued solution concept for coalitional games first introduced in Shapley [1953]. Shapleys original goal was to answer the question “How much would a player be willing to pay for participating in a game?”

Game Theory: Games with incomplete information and common priors

Chapter summary In this chapter we study situations in which players do not have complete information on the environment they face. Due to the interactive nature of the game, modeling such situations involves not only the knowledge and beliefs of the players, but also the whole hierarchy of knowledge of each player, that is, knowledge of the knowledge of the other players, knowledge of the knowledge of the other players of the knowledge of other players, and so on. When the players have beliefs (i.e. probability distributions) on the unknown parameters that define the game, we similarly run into the need to consider infinite hierarchies of beliefs . The challenge of the theory was to incorporate these infinite hierarchies of knowledge and beliefs in a workable model. We start by presenting the Aumann model of incomplete information, which models the knowledge of the players regarding the payoff-relevant parameters in the situation that they face. We define the knowledge operator , the concept of common knowledge , and characterize the collection of events that are common knowledge among the players. We then add to the model the notion of belief and prove Aumanns agreement theorem: it cannot be common knowledge among the players that they disagree about the probability of a certain event. An equivalent model to the Aumann model of incomplete information is a Harsanyi game with incomplete information . After presenting the game, we define two notions of equilibrium: the Nash equilibrium corresponding to the ex ante stage, before players receive information on the game they face, and the Bayesian equilibrium corresponding to the interim stage, after the players have received information.

Game Theory: Strategic-form games

Chapter summary In this chapter we present the model of strategic-form games . A game in strategic form consists of a set of players, a strategy set for each player, and an outcome to each vector of strategies, which is usually given by the vector of utilities the players enjoy from the outcome. The strategic-form description ignores dynamic aspects of the game, such as the order of the moves by the players, chance moves, and the informational structure of the game. The goal of the theory is to suggest which strategies are more likely to be played by the players, or to recommend to players which strategy to implement (or not to implement). We present several concepts that allow one to achieve these goals. The first concept introduced is domination (strict or weak), which provides a partial ordering of strategies of the same player; it tells when one strategy is “better” than another strategy. Under the hypothesis that it is commonly known that “rational” players do not implement a dominated strategy we can then introduce the process of iterated elimination of dominated strategies , also called rationalizability . In this process, dominated strategies are successively eliminated from the game, thereby simplifying it. We go on to introduce the notion of stability , captured by the concept of Nash equilibrium , and the notion of security , captured by the concept of the maxmin value and maxmin strategies. The important class of two-player zero-sum games is introduced along with its solution called the value (or the minmax value ).

Game Theory: The game of chess

Chapter summary In the opening chapter of this book, we use the well-known game of chess to illustrate the notions of strategy and winning strategy . We then prove one of the first results in game theory, due to John von Neumann: in the game of chess either White (the first mover) has a winning strategy, or Black (the second mover) has a winning strategy, or each player has a strategy guaranteeing at least a draw. This is an important and nontrivial result, especially in view of the fact that to date, it is not known which of the above three alternatives holds, let alone what the winning strategy is, if one exists. In later chapters of the book, this result takes a more general form and is applied to a large class of games. We begin with an exposition of the elementary ideas in noncooperative game theory, by analyzing the game of chess. Although the theory that we will develop in this chapter relates to that specific game, in later chapters it will be developed to apply to much more general situations. Schematic description of the game The game of chess is played by two players, traditionally referred to as White and Black. At the start of a match, each player has sixteen pieces arranged on the chessboard. White is granted the opening move, following which each player in turn moves pieces on the board, according to a set of fixed rules.