Title
Leadership games with convex strategy sets
Abstract
A basic model of commitment is to convert a two-player game in strategic form to a “leadership game” with the same payoffs, where one player, the leader, commits to a strategy, to which the second player always chooses a best reply. This paper studies such leadership games for games with convex strategy sets. We apply them to mixed extensions of finite games, which we analyze completely, including nongeneric games. The main result is that leadership is advantageous in the sense that, as a set, the leader's payoffs in equilibrium are at least as high as his Nash and correlated equilibrium payoffs in the simultaneous game. We also consider leadership games with three or more players, where most conclusions no longer hold.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.geb.2009.11.008
Games and Economic Behavior
Keywords
DocType
Volume
C72
Journal
69
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0899-8256
31
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.14
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bernhard von Stengel127538.51
shmuel zamir26915.94