maintain a permanent reputation for playing a strategy that does not play an equilibrium of the game without uncertainty about … types. Thus, a player cannot indefinitely sustain a reputation for non-credible behavior in the presence of imperfect …

For games of public reputation with uncertainty over types and imperfect public monitoring, Cripps, Mailath, and … Samuelson (2004) showed that an informed player facing short-lived uninformed opponents cannot maintain a permanent reputation …’s reputation is private. …