A stochastic differential game of capitalism

Chee Kian Leong; Weihong Huang

doi:10.1016/j.jmateco.2010.03.007

A stochastic differential game of capitalism

Chee Kian Leong, Weihong Huang

Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics China

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Abstract

We develop a stochastic differential game of capitalism to analyze the role of uncertainty. In the deterministic game, the firm's rent is completely taxed away and the firm stops investing completely. In the stochastic game, the government does not tax the firm's rent completely. The firm posts a positive rate of investment if the firm's rent exceeds the labor's income. Although the cooperative solution is indeterminate, cooperation is always Pareto optimal compared to the non-cooperative Markovian Nash equilibrium. For individual rationality, we apply a payoff distribution procedure based on Yeung and Petrosyan (2006) to derive a subgame-consistent solution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	552-561
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Mathematical Economics
Volume	46
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2010.03.007
Publication status	Published - Jul 2010

Keywords

Capitalism
Differential games

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Economics and Econometrics
Applied Mathematics

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