Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/101353 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 587
Publisher: 
The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics, Baltimore, MD
Abstract: 
In the context of an infinitely repeated Prisoners.Dilemma, we explore how cooperation is initiated when players signal and coordinate through their actions. There are two types of players - patient and impatient - and a player's type is private information. An impatient type is incapable of cooperative play, while if both players are patient types - and this is common knowledge - then they can cooperate with a grim trigger strategy. We find that the longer that players have gone without cooperating, the lower is the probability that they'll cooperate in the next period. While the probability of cooperation emerging is always positive, there is a positive probability that cooperation never occurs.
Subjects: 
Cooperation
Tacit Collusion
JEL: 
C72
L13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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