Nash' noncooperative and cooperative foundations for "bargaining with threats" are reinterpreted to achieve equilibrium selection in infinitely repeated two player games. The analysis is then extended to stochastic games, where players' choices affect the state transition matrix. Sufficient...

In the literature of psychology and economics it is frequently observed that individuals tend to conform in their behavior to the behavior of similar individuals. A fundamental question is whether the outcome of such behavior can be consistent with self-interest. We propose that this consistency...