Weakly Belief-Free Equilibria in Repeated Games with Private Monitoring

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Economic Theory Workshop (2005-2010)
University of Pennsylvania

3718 Locust Walk
395 McNeil

Philadelphia, PA

United States

Repeated games with imperfect private monitoring have a wide

range of applications, but a complete characterization of all equilibria in this class of games has yet to be obtained. The existing literature has identified a relatively tractable subset of equilibria. The present

paper introduces the notion of weakly belief-free equilibria for repeated games with imperfect private monitoring. This is a tractable class which subsumes, as a special case, a major part of the existing work(the belief-free equilibria), and it is shown that this class can outperform

(in terms of efficiency) the equilibria identified by previous work.

For more information, contact Jing Li.

Michihiro Kandori

The University of Tokyo

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