Efficiency may improve when defectors exist

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Takako Fujiwara-Greve, Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara, Nobue Suzuki]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Economic Theory, 60/3(2015-11-01), 423-460
Format:
Artikel (online)
ID: 605475504
LEADER caa a22 4500
001 605475504
003 CHVBK
005 20210128100352.0
007 cr unu---uuuuu
008 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng
024 7 0 |a 10.1007/s00199-015-0909-4  |2 doi 
035 |a (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00199-015-0909-4 
245 0 0 |a Efficiency may improve when defectors exist  |h [Elektronische Daten]  |c [Takako Fujiwara-Greve, Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara, Nobue Suzuki] 
520 3 |a In repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, the C-trigger strategy played by all players is well known to achieve symmetric efficiency when players are sufficiently patient. By contrast, if players are free to quit a repeated Prisoner's Dilemma without information flow to new partners, cooperation from the outset of new partnerships cannot be a part of any symmetric equilibrium. Fujiwara-Greve and Okuno-Fujiwara (Rev Econ Stud 76:993-1021, 2009) showed that symmetric trust-building strategies can constitute an equilibrium for sufficiently long initial (D,D) (trust-building) periods. However, trust-building periods create social loss of payoffs, and there is a possibility that an asymmetric equilibrium with some players cooperating immediately, while others defect, may be more efficient. We show that there is a "fundamentally asymmetric” locally stable Nash equilibrium consisting of the most cooperative strategy (C-trigger with ending the partnership when betrayed) and the most noncooperative strategy, which plays D and ends the partnership immediately. When the deviation gain is relatively small, the fundamentally asymmetric equilibrium is neutrally stable against equilibrium entrants within trust-building strategies and is more efficient than any Nash equilibrium consisting of non-degenerate trust-building strategies. Our result indicates that behavioral diversity can be stable and beneficial for the society, even if players are free to escape from personalized punishments. 
540 |a Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 
690 7 |a Efficiency  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Diversity  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Voluntary separation  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Prisoner's Dilemma  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Endogenous partnerships  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Fujiwara-Greve  |D Takako  |u Department of Economics, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, 108-8345, Minatoku, Tokyo, Japan  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Okuno-Fujiwara  |D Masahiro  |u Department of Economics, Musashino University, 3-3-3 Ariake, Kotoku, 135-0063, Tokyo, Japan  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Suzuki  |D Nobue  |u Faculty of Economics, Komazawa University, 1-23-1 Komazawa, 154-8525, Setagayaku, Tokyo, Japan  |4 aut 
773 0 |t Economic Theory  |d Springer Berlin Heidelberg  |g 60/3(2015-11-01), 423-460  |x 0938-2259  |q 60:3<423  |1 2015  |2 60  |o 199 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-015-0909-4  |q text/html  |z Onlinezugriff via DOI 
898 |a BK010053  |b XK010053  |c XK010000 
900 7 |a Metadata rights reserved  |b Springer special CC-BY-NC licence  |2 nationallicence 
908 |D 1  |a research-article  |2 jats 
949 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |F NATIONALLICENCE  |b NL-springer 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 856  |E 40  |u https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-015-0909-4  |q text/html  |z Onlinezugriff via DOI 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Fujiwara-Greve  |D Takako  |u Department of Economics, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, 108-8345, Minatoku, Tokyo, Japan  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Okuno-Fujiwara  |D Masahiro  |u Department of Economics, Musashino University, 3-3-3 Ariake, Kotoku, 135-0063, Tokyo, Japan  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 700  |E 1-  |a Suzuki  |D Nobue  |u Faculty of Economics, Komazawa University, 1-23-1 Komazawa, 154-8525, Setagayaku, Tokyo, Japan  |4 aut 
950 |B NATIONALLICENCE  |P 773  |E 0-  |t Economic Theory  |d Springer Berlin Heidelberg  |g 60/3(2015-11-01), 423-460  |x 0938-2259  |q 60:3<423  |1 2015  |2 60  |o 199