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The effect of options on coordination

Guimarães, Bernardo de Vasconcellos; Araújo, Luís

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This paper studies how constraints on the timing of actions affect equilibrium in intertemporal coordination problems. The model exhibits a unique symmetric equilibrium in cut-o¤ strategies. The risk-dominant action of the underlying one-shot game is selected when the option to delay effort is commensurate with the option to wait longer for others' actions. The possibility of waiting longer for the actions of others enhances coordination, but the option of delaying one s actions can induce severe coordination failures: if agents are very patient, they might get arbitrarily low expected payoffs even in cases where coordination would yield arbitrarily large returns.

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Tipo
Estudo
Ano
2013
Instituição
Fundação Getulio Vargas
Idioma
Inglês
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Não informado
Identificador
oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/11016

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