Title
Delayed-response strategies in repeated games with observation lags.
Abstract
We extend the folk theorem of repeated games to two settings in which players' information about others' play arrives with stochastic lags. In our first model, signals are almost-perfect if and when they do arrive, that is, each player either observes an almost-perfect signal of period-t play with some lag or else never sees a signal of period-t play. The second model has the same lag structure, but the information structure corresponds to a lagged form of imperfect public monitoring, and players are allowed to communicate via cheap-talk messages at the end of each period. In each case, we construct equilibria in “delayed-response strategies,” which ensure that players wait long enough to respond to signals that with high probability all relevant signals are received before players respond. To do so, we extend past work on private monitoring to obtain folk theorems despite the small residual amount of private information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.jet.2013.09.004
Journal of Economic Theory
Keywords
DocType
Volume
C73
Journal
150
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0022-0531
3
0.55
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Drew Fudenberg117544.93
Yuhta Ishii230.89
Scott Duke Kominers310119.76