Artikel

Communication and cooperation in repeated games

We study the role of communication in repeated games with private monitoring. We first show that without communication, the set of Nash equilibrium payoffs in such games is a subset of the set of ε-coarse correlated equilibrium payoffs (ε-CCE) of the underlying one-shot game. The value of ε depends on the discount factor and the quality of monitoring. We then identify conditions under which there are equilibria with "cheap talk" that result in nearly efficient payoffs outside the set ε-CCE. Thus, in our model, communication is necessary for cooperation.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Theoretical Economics ; ISSN: 1555-7561 ; Volume: 14 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 513-553 ; New Haven, CT: The Econometric Society

Classification
Wirtschaft
Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games; Repeated Games
Subject
Repeated games
private monitoring
communication

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Awaya, Yu
Krishna, Vijay
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
The Econometric Society
(where)
New Haven, CT
(when)
2019

DOI
doi:10.3982/TE3049
Handle
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  • Artikel

Associated

  • Awaya, Yu
  • Krishna, Vijay
  • The Econometric Society

Time of origin

  • 2019

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