On K-Class discounted stochastic games
For a discounted stochastic game with an uncountable state space and compact metric action spaces, we show that if the measurable-selection-valued, Nash payoff selection correspondence of the underlying one-shot game contains a sub-correspondence having the K- limit property (i.e., if the Nash payoff selection sub-correspondence contains its K-limits and therefore is a K correspondence), then the discounted stochastic game has a stationary Markov equilibrium. Our key result is a new fixed point theorem for measurable-selection-valued correspondences having the K-limit property. We also show that if the discounted stochastic game is noisy (Duggan, 2012), or if the underlying probability space satisfies the G-nonatomic condition of Rokhlin (1949) and Dynkin and Evstigneev (1976) (and therefore satisfies the coaser transition kernel condition of He and Sun, 2014), then the Nash payoff selection correspondence contains a sub-correspondence having the K-limit property.
| Item Type | Working paper |
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| Keywords | approximate Caratheodory selections,fixed points of nonconvex valuedcorrespondences,measurable selection valued correspondences,Komlos limits,Komlos’ Theorem,weak star convergence,discounted stochastic games,stationaryMarkov equilibria |
| Departments |
Finance Systemic Risk Centre |
| Date Deposited | 20 Sep 2016 15:35 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/67809 |