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Disappearing private reputations in long-run relationships

Cripps, M.W.; Mailath, G.J.; Samuelson, L.; (2007) Disappearing private reputations in long-run relationships. Journal of Economic Theory , 134 (1) pp. 287-316. 10.1016/j.jet.2006.03.007. Green open access

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Abstract

For games of public reputation with uncertainty over types and imperfect public monitoring, Cripps et al. [Imperfect monitoring and impermanent reputations, Econometrica 72 (2004) 407–432] showed that an informed player facing short-lived uninformed opponents cannot maintain a permanent reputation for playing a strategy that is not part of an equilibrium of the game without uncertainty over types. This paper extends that result to games in which the uninformed player is long-lived and has private beliefs, so that the informed player's reputation is private. The rate at which reputations disappear is uniform across equilibria and reputations also disappear in sufficiently long discounted finitely repeated games.

Type: Article
Title: Disappearing private reputations in long-run relationships
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2006.03.007
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2006.03.007
Language: English
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/16381
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