Cooperation and bounded recall

Robert J. Aumann*, Sylvain Sorin

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Abstract

A two-person game has common interests if there is a single payoff pair z that strongly Pareto dominates all other payoff pairs. Suppose such a game is repeated many times, and that each player attaches a small but positive probability to the other playing some fixed strategy with bounded recall, rather than playing to maximize his payoff. Then the resulting supergame has an equilibrium in pure strategies, and the payoffs to all such equilibria are close to optimal (i.e., to z).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5-39
Number of pages35
JournalGames and Economic Behavior
Volume1
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 1989

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