Cvitanić, Jakša and Georgiadis, George (2016) Achieving Efficiency in Dynamic Contribution Games. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 8 (4). pp. 309-342. ISSN 1945-7669. doi:10.1257/mic.20160018. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20161206-105045384
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Abstract
We analyze a game in which a group of agents exerts costly effort over time to make progress on a project. The project is completed once the cumulative effort reaches a prespecified threshold, at which point it generates a lump-sum payoff. We characterize a budget-balanced mechanism that induces each agent to exert the first-best effort level as the outcome of a Markov perfect equilibrium, thus eliminating the free-rider problem. We also show how our mechanism can be adapted to other dynamic games with externalities, such as strategic experimentation and the dynamic extraction of a common resource.
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| Additional Information: | © 2016 American Economic Association. We are grateful to Attila Ambrus, Simon Board, Kim Border, Yeon-Koo Che, Larry Kotlikoff, Eddie Lazear, Fei Li, Albert Ma, Niko Matouschek, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, Dilip Mookherjee, Andy Newman, Juan Ortner, Andy Skrzypacz, Chris Tang, Luke Taylor, and Glen Weyl, as well as to seminar audiences at Boston University, Northwestern University (Kellogg), Michigan State University, the University of Pennsylvania, INFORMS 2015, the 2015 Canadian Economic Theory Conference, the Annual 2015 IO Theory Conference, and the 2015 Midwest Economic Theory Conference for numerous comments and suggestions. We thank Maja Kos for excellent editorial assistance. J. Cvitanić acknowledges support from NSF grant DMS 10-08219. | |||||||||
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| Issue or Number: | 4 | |||||||||
| Classification Code: | JEL Classification: C73; D62; D82; Q31 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1257/mic.20160018 | |||||||||
| Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20161206-105045384 | |||||||||
| Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20161206-105045384 | |||||||||
| Official Citation: | Cvitanić, Jakša and George Georgiadis. 2016. "Achieving Efficiency in Dynamic Contribution Games." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 8(4): 309-42 | |||||||||
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| ID Code: | 72593 | |||||||||
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| Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | |||||||||
| Deposited On: | 06 Dec 2016 19:38 | |||||||||
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