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Strategic Interaction and Externalities: FD-games and pollution

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  • Reinoud Joosten

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To analyze strategic interaction which may induce externalities, we designed Bathroom Games with frequency-dependent stage payoffs. Two people regularly use a bathroom, before leaving they can either clean up the mess made, or not. Cleaning up involves an effort, so this option always gives a lower immediate utility than not cleaning up. The immediate utility of using the bathroom depends on its condition: the cleaner it is, the higher the utility. The pollution at a certain point in time depends on how often the players did not clean up in the past. Furthermore, as the bathroom's condition deteriorates, cleaning up becomes more burdensome, leading to increasing disutilities. We follow the analysis of repeated games and find that if the agents are sufficiently patient, individually-rational rewards can be supported by (subgame perfect) equilibria involving threats. In almost every such equilibrium, the bathroom is cleaned up regularly.

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  • Reinoud Joosten, 2004. "Strategic Interaction and Externalities: FD-games and pollution," Papers on Economics and Evolution 2004-17, Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography.
  • Handle: RePEc:esi:evopap:2004-17
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    1. Joseph M. Abdou & Nikolaos Pnevmatikos, 2019. "Asymptotic Value in Frequency-Dependent Games with Separable Payoffs: A Differential Approach," Dynamic Games and Applications, Springer, vol. 9(2), pages 295-313, June.
    2. Reinoud Joosten, 2015. "Long-run Strategic Advertising and Short-run Bertrand Competition," International Game Theory Review (IGTR), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 17(02), pages 1-24.
    3. Reinoud Joosten, 2007. "Strategic Advertisement with Externalities: A New Dynamic Approach," Papers on Economics and Evolution 2007-02, Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography.

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    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games

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