The tenet of transitory compensation in dynamically stable cooperation

Abstract

Dynamic cooperation represents one of the most complex forms of decision-making analysis under uncertainty. The complexity leads to great difficulties in the derivation of dynamically stable solutions. An essential factor for a dynamically stable cooperative solution is availability of a system of transitory compensations leading to a subgame consistent solution. In this paper, we derive and examine the rationale behind the working of transitory compensation by discomposing the subgame consistent payoff distribution.