Monitoring institutions in indefinitely repeated games
实验研究在无限重复博弈中，参与者付费获取他人行为信息或创建公开记录能否促进合作，结果发现这两种监督机制均未能提高合作水平。
Abstract Does monitoring past conduct facilitate intertemporal cooperation? We designed an experiment characterized by strategic uncertainty and multiple equilibria where coordinating on the efficient outcome is a challenge. Participants, interacting anonymously in a group, could pay a cost either to obtain information about their counterparts, or to create a freely available public record of individual conduct. Both monitoring institutions were actively employed. However, groups were unable to attain higher levels of cooperation compared to a treatment without monitoring. Information about past conduct alone thus appears to be ineffective in overcoming coordination challenges.