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most citedCrime Aggregation, Deterrence, and Witness Credibility

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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.GN2020★ 5 cited

Crime Aggregation, Deterrence, and Witness Credibility

Harry Pei, Bruno Strulovici

We present a model for the equilibrium frequency of offenses and the informativeness of witness reports when potential offenders can commit multiple offenses and witnesses are subj…

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.TH2020★ 3 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.TH2020★ 2 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…