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econ.TH2020

Misspecified Beliefs about Time Lags

Yingkai Li, Harry Pei

We examine the long-term behavior of a Bayesian agent who has a misspecified belief about the time lag between actions and feedback, and learns about the payoff consequences of his…

econ.TH2020

A Reputation for Honesty

Drew Fudenberg, Ying Gao, Harry Pei

We analyze situations in which players build reputations for honesty rather than for playing particular actions. A patient player facing a sequence of short-run opponents makes an…

econ.TH2020

Equilibrium Behaviors in Repeated Games

Yingkai Li, Harry Pei

We examine a patient player's behavior when he can build reputations in front of a sequence of myopic opponents. With positive probability, the patient player is a commitment type…

econ.TH20203 cited

Trust and Betrayals: Reputational Payoffs and Behaviors without Commitment

Harry Pei

I study a repeated game in which a patient player (e.g., a seller) wants to win the trust of some myopic opponents (e.g., buyers) but can strictly benefit from betraying them. Her…

econ.TH20202 cited

Repeated Communication with Private Lying Cost

Harry Pei

I study repeated communication games between a patient sender and a sequence of receivers. The sender has persistent private information about his psychological cost of lying, and…

econ.TH2020

Reputation for Playing Mixed Actions: A Characterization Theorem

Harry Pei

A patient player privately observes a persistent state that directly affects his myopic opponents' payoffs, and can be one of the several commitment types that plays the same mixed…