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Recent evidence highlights the importance of social norms in many economic relations. Many of these relationships are long-term and provide repeated game incentives for performance. We experimentally investigate interaction effects of reciprocity and repeated game incentives in two treatments...
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in these models. We propose a way to take these pay-offs into account, and find that cooperation as equilibrium of the … parameter space, all cooperation equilibria are strictly risk dominated in the sense of Harsanyi and Selten (1988). We derive an … others defect, and argue it is a better measure for the ‘likelihood’ of cooperation than the critical level at which …
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before opponents react. Under imperfect monitoring, however, flexibility may also hinder collusion by inducing punishment …
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international environmental cooperation facilitates economic exchange. …
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I treat international merger policy as a repeated veto game. I derive optimal equilibria and consider a series of comparative statistics and extensions.
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We model cooperation between an employer and a workers' union as an equilibrium in an infinitely repeated game with … variable, it also extends the theory to account for worker resistance phenomena, taking the form of low effort on the part of …
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punishment; and (c) increasing the riskiness of taking part to a cartel. …
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This paper develops a theory of regular Markov perfect equilibria in dynamic stochastic games. We show that almost all …
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An agent can choose to forego benefits from side opportunities and to instead provide benefits to the principal. In return, the principal offers rewards. If this exchange is not contractible, typically repeated interaction will be required to sustain it. This model allows the agent's...
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Understanding the impact of legal protection on investment is of major importance. This paper provides a framework for addressing this issue, and shows that investment may actually be higher in the absence of legal protection. Focusing on the application to innovation, in an environment where an...
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