Reputation with Long Run Players and Imperfect Observation
Author | : Alp E. Atakan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2009 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:837621341 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Reputation with Long Run Players and Imperfect Observation written by Alp E. Atakan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous work shows that reputation results may fail in repeated games between two long-run players with equal discount factors. We restrict attention to an infinitely repeated game where two players with equal discount factors play a simultaneous move stage game where actions of player 2 are imperfectly observed. The set of commitment types for player 1 is taken as any (countable) set of finite automata. In this context, for a restricted class of stage games, we provide a one sided reputation result. If player 1 is a particular commitment type with positive probability and player 2's actions are imperfectly observed, then player 1 receives his highest pay-off, compatible with individual rationality, in any Bayes-Nash equilibria, as agents become patient. -- Repeated Games ; Reputation ; Equal Discount Factor ; Long-run Players ; Imperfect Observation ; Complicated Types ; Finite Automaton