Communication and Community Enforcement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10176757 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Takuo Sugaya (0000-0001-5104-5469), Alexander Wolitzky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 129 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 2595-2628 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3808 • E-ISSN: 1537-534X |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/715023 |
| OpenAlex | W3157470586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 41 |
We study the repeated prisoner's dilemma with random matching, a canonical model of community enforcement with decentralized information. We assume that (1) with small probability, each player is a "bad type" who never cooperates, (2) players observe and remember their partners' identities, and (3) each player interacts with others frequently but meets any particular partner infrequently. We show that these assumptions preclude cooperation in the absence of explicit communication but that introducing within-match cheap talk communication restores cooperation. Thus, communication is essential for community enforcement
Business · Computer security · Dilemma · Economics · Enforcement · Game theory · Internet privacy · Matching (statistics · Microeconomics · Political science · Prisoner's dilemma · Computer Science · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Game Theory and Applications · Law · Mathematics
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |