Games played in a contracting environment

B-Tier
Journal: Games and Economic Behavior
Year: 2009
Volume: 67
Issue: 2
Pages: 389-398

Score contribution per author:

2.011 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We analyze normal form games where a player has to pay a price to a supplier in order to play a specific action. Our focus is on supplier competition, arising from the fact that distinct suppliers supply different players, and possibly different actions of the same player. With private contracts, where a player only observes the prices quoted by his own suppliers, the set of equilibrium distributions over player actions coincides with the set of equilibrium distributions when all actions are supplied competitively, at cost. With public contracts, the two distributions differ dramatically even in simple games.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:gamebe:v:67:y:2009:i:2:p:389-398
Journal Field
Theory
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-24