A Partial Folk Theorem for Games with Unknown Payoff Distributions

Thomas Wiseman

Econometrica, 2005, vol. 73, issue 2, 629-645

Abstract: Repeated games with unknown payoff distributions are analogous to a single decision maker's "multi-armed bandit" problem. Each state of the world corresponds to a different payoff matrix of a stage game. When monitoring is perfect, information about the state is public, and players are sufficiently patient, the following result holds: For any function that maps each state to a payoff vector that is feasible and individually rational in that state, there is a sequential equilibrium in which players experiment to learn the realized state and achieve a payoff close to the one specified for that state. Copyright The Econometric Society 2005.

Date: 2005
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