Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/43494 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 2010,120
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Imperfect private monitoring in an infinitely repeated discounted Prisoner's Dilemma played on a communication network is studied. Players observe their direct neighbors' behavior only, but communicate strategically the repeated game's history throughout the network. The delay in receiving this information requires the players to be more patient to sustain the same level of cooperation as in a complete network, although a Folk Theorem obtains when the players are patient enough. All equilibria under exogenously imposed truth-telling extend to strategic communication, and additional ones arise due to richer communication. There are equilibria in which a player lies. The flow of information is related with network centrality measures.
Subjects: 
Repeated Game
Prisoner's Dilemma
Imperfect Private Monitoring
Network
Strategic Communication
Centrality
JEL: 
C72
C73
D85
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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