Cooperation in a Repeated Game with Random Payment Function

I Eshel, D Weinshall

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Abstract

A model of cooperation versus defection in a sequence of games is analyzed under the assumptions that the rules of the game are randomly changed from one encounter to another, that the decisions are to be made each time anew, according to the (random) rules of the specific local game, and that the result of one such game affects the ability of a player to participate and thus, cooperate in the next game. Under plausible assumptions, it is shown that all Nash solutions of the supergame determine cooperation over a non-degenerate range of rules, determining encounters of the prisoner's dilemma type.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)478-491
Number of pages14
JournalJournal of Applied Probability
Volume25
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1988

Keywords

  • Probability
  • Game theory
  • Cooperativeness

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