Reputation without commitment in finitely repeated games
证明,关于阶段收益的不完全信息可以产生任意承诺类型,从而在有限重复博弈中实现经典的信誉结果,无需假设玩家有承诺类型。
In the reputation literature, players have \\emph{commitment types} which represent the possibility that they do not have standard payoffs but instead are constrained to follow a particular plan. In this paper, we show that arbitrary commitment types can emerge from incomplete information about the stage payoffs. In particular, any finitely repeated game with commitment types is strategically equivalent to a standard finitely repeated game with incomplete information about the stage payoffs. Then, classic reputation results can be achieved with uncertainty concerning only the stage payoffs.