This is a paper on the creation and evolution of conventions of behavior in ”inter-generational games”. In these games a sequence of non-overlapping ”generations” of players play a stage game for a finite number of periods and are then replaced by other agents who continue the game in...

We investigate the creation and evolution of conventions of behavior in "intergenerational games" or games in which a sequence of nonoverlapping "generations" of players play a stage game for a finite number of periods and are then replaced by other agents who continue the game in their role for...