OxTalks will soon be transitioning to Oxford Events (full details are available on the Staff Gateway). A two-week publishing freeze is expected in early Hilary to allow all events to be migrated to the new platform. During this period, you will not be able to submit or edit events on OxTalks. The exact freeze dates will be confirmed as soon as possible.
If you have any questions, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
A general theory of stochastic extensive form games reconciling two concepts of exogenous information – those of “nature” in classical game theory and filtrations in stochastic analysis – is constructed. Here, “nature” does not take decisions but rather behave as a one-shot lottery equipped with a dynamically updating oracle, and “personal” players take decisions in an extensive form adapted to that oracle. This requires to substantially modify the existing theory. I introduce, discuss and analyse the notions of stochastic game forests, exogenous information structures and adapted choices. The notion of random moves is introduced and, based on this, subgame-perfect equilibria can be formulated. The generality of the theory is illustrated via several examples, including stochastic differential games, timing games in continuous time, and games with asymmetric information.