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100 _aSugaya, Takuo and Wolitzky, Alexander
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245 _aA few bad apples spoil the barrel: An anti-folk theorem for anonymous repeated games with incomplete information
260 _aThe American Economic Review
300 _a110(12), Dec, 2020: p.3817-3835
520 _aWe study anonymous repeated games where players may be "commitment types" who always take the same action. We establish a stark anti-folk theorem: if the distribution of the number of commitment types satisfies a smoothness condition and the game has a "pairwise dominant" action, this action is almost always taken. This implies that cooperation is impossible in the repeated prisoner's dilemma with anonymous random matching. We also bound equilibrium payoffs for general games. Our bound implies that industry profits converge to zero in linear-demand Cournot oligopoly as the number of firms increases. – Reproduced
650 _aNoncooperative Games C73 Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games; Repeated Games
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773 _aThe American Economic Review
906 _aGAMES THEORY
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