On repeated games with imperfect public monitoring: From discrete to continuous time

Abstract

Motivated by recent path-breaking contributions in the theory of repeated games in continuous time, this paper presents a family of discretetime games which provides a consistent discrete-time approximation of the continuous-time limit game. Using probabilistic arguments, we prove that continuous-time games can be defined as the limit of a sequence of discretetime games. Our convergence analysis reveals various intricacies of continuoustime games. First, we demonstrate the importance of correlated strategies in continuous-time. Second, we attach a precise meaning to the statement that a sequence of discrete-time games can be used to approximate a continuous-time game.