We consider a class of two-player quadratic games under incomplete information to study the relation between exogenous coordination motives and strategic interactions in information acquisition. The players make decisions ...

This paper studies cooperative behavior in communities with a subset of short-run players. This is done in the context of a repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma game. The introduction of a short-run player in the population breaks ...

This paper studies how an information mechanism that labels defectors can sustain cooperative behavior in communities containing a subset of short-run players. This is done in the context of a repeated Prisoner's ...

In this paper we use a non cooperative equilibrium selection approach as a notion of stability in link formation games. Specifically, we first extend the global games literature, originally introduced by Carlsson and van ...

Many rent-sharing decisions in a society result from a bargaining process between groups of individuals (such as between the executive and the legislative branches of government, btween legislative factions, between corporate ...