Trust and betrayals: reputational payoffs and behaviors without commitment
Harry Pei ()
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Harry Pei: Department of Economics, Northwestern University
Theoretical Economics, 2021, vol. 16, issue 2
Abstract:
I study a repeated game in which a patient player wants to win the trust of some myopic opponents but can strictly benefit from betraying them. His benefit from betrayal is strictly positive and is his persistent private information. I characterize every type of patient player's highest equilibrium payoff and construct equilibria that attain this payoff. Since the patient player's Stackelberg action is mixed and motivating the lowest-benefit type to play mixed actions is costly, every type's highest equilibrium payoff is strictly lower than his Stackelberg payoff. In every equilibrium where the patient player approximately attains his highest equilibrium payoff, no type of the patient player plays stationary strategies or completely mixed strategies.
Keywords: Reputation; no commitment type; equilibrium payoff; equilibrium behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C73 D82 D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-05-03
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