Preempting versus Postponing: the Stealing Game

Andrea Gallice

ICER Working Papers from ICER - International Centre for Economic Research

Abstract: We present an endogenous timing game of action commitment in which play- ers can steal from each other parts of a homogeneous and perfectly divisible pie (market). We show how the incentives to preempt or to follow the rivals radi- cally change with the number of players involved in the game. In the course of the analysis we also introduce, discuss and apply the concept of pu-dominance, a generalization of the risk-dominance criterion to games with more than two players.

Keywords: stealing; endogenous timing games; pu-dominance. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C73 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2008-06
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