Indefinitely repeated games: A response to Carroll
Author(s) -
Neal C. Becker,
Ann E. Cudd
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
theory and decision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1573-7187
pISSN - 0040-5833
DOI - 10.1007/bf00160935
Subject(s) - repeated game , mathematical economics , dilemma , prisoner's dilemma , repeated measures design , game theory , mathematics , computer science , statistics , geometry
In a recent volume of this journal John Carroll argued that there exist only uncooperative equilibria in indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma games. We show that this claim depends on modeling such games as finitely but indefinitely repeated games, which reduce simply to finitely repeated games. We propose an alternative general model of probabilistically indefinitely repeated games, and discuss the appropriateness of each of these models of indefinitely repeated games.
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