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Podcast discussing the STIET research program with Jeff MacKie-Mason and Tom Finholt
podcast -- Yahoo Answers users seek advice, opinion, as well as expertise in research by Mark Ackerman, Lada Adamic and STIET fellow Eytan Bakshy
Podcast discussing the STIET research program with Jeff MacKie-Mason and Tom FinholtMihai Manea
Assistant Professor of Economics, MIT
4-5:30 pm
UM: 411 West Hall
WSU: 313 State Hall (via videoconference)
We study an infinite horizon game in which pairs of players connected in a network are randomly matched to bargain over a unit surplus. Players that reach agreement are replaced by new players at the same positions in the network. We prove that for each discount factor all equilibria are payoff equivalent. The equilibrium payoffs and the set of equilibrium agreement links converge as players become patient. Several new concepts–mutually estranged sets, partners, and shortage ratios–provide insights into the relative strengths of the positions in the network. We develop a procedure to determine the limit equilibrium payoffs by iteratively applying the following results. Limit payoffs are lowest for the players in the largest mutually estranged set that minimizes the shortage ratio, and highest for the corresponding partners. In equilibrium, for high discount factors, the partners act as an oligopoly for the estranged players. In the limit, surplus within the induced oligopoly subnetwork is divided according to the shortage ratio. We characterize equitable networks, stable networks, and non-discriminatory buyer-seller networks. The results extend to heterogeneous discount factors and general matching technologies. A link to the paper is available at http://econ-www.mit.edu/files/4570
Mihai Manea is an assistant professor of Economics at MIT. His current research focuses on surplus division in networks, allocation and matching problems, and mechanism design with independent discrete types. His earlier work explored issues in decision theory and game theory. Mihai earned an A.B. from Princeton University in 2005 and completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2009. His website is http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/manea
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