Repeated Games

Hans Peters

Chapter 7 in Game Theory, 2015, pp 121-138 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the famous prisoners’ dilemma game the bad (Pareto inferior) outcome, resulting from each player playing his dominant action, cannot be avoided in a Nash equilibrium or subgame perfect Nash equilibrium even if the game is repeated a finite number of times, cf. Problem 4.10. As we will see in this chapter, this bad outcome can be avoided if the game is repeated an infinite number of times. This, however, is coming at a price, namely the existence of a multitude of outcomes attainable in equilibrium. Such an embarrassment of riches is expressed by a so-called folk theorem.

Keywords: Nash Equilibrium; Repeated Game; Subgame Perfect Equilibrium; Matrix Game; Stage Game (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-46950-7_7

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