through reputation. We demonstrate that there are situations in which it is optimal for the criminal to always return the … files and situations in which it is not. We argue that the ability to build reputation will depend on how victims … they need to find ways of building a good reputation. …

In evolutionary models of indirect reciprocity, reputation mechanisms can stabilize cooperation even in severe … cooperate iff their partner has a good reputation, cannot be invaded by any other strategy that conditions behavior only on own … and partner reputation. The first point of this paper is to show that an evolutionary version of backward induction can …

We study a class of continuous-time reputation games between a large player and a population of small players in which …

remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation … forces of (a) learning about the benefits of reputation, and (b) learning about backward unraveling. We find, inter alia …, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely …

I study reputation effects under uncertain monitoring. I examine a repeated game between a long-run player and a series … uncertainty about the monitoring structure introduces new challenges to reputation building because there may not be a direct … ability to establish a reputation for commitment. I show that, when the short-run players cannot statistically distinguish …

Reputation in a blockchain-based system is a digital representation of an entity’s standing or status in a specific …