Document Type
Discussion Paper
Publication Date
5-1-2016
CFDP Number
2042
CFDP Pages
37
Abstract
We study a canonical model of reputation between a long-run player and a sequence of short-run opponents, in which the long-run player is privately informed about an uncertain state that determines the monitoring structure in the reputation game. The long-run player plays a stage-game repeatedly against a sequence of short-run opponents. We present necessary and sufficient conditions (on the monitoring structure and the type space) to obtain reputation building in this setting. Specifically, in contrast to the previous literature, with only stationary commitment types, reputation building is generally not possible and highly sensitive to the inclusion of other commitment types. However, with the inclusion of appropriate dynamic commitment types, reputation building can again be sustained while maintaining robustness to the inclusion of other arbitrary types.
Recommended Citation
Deb, Joyee and Ishii, Yuhta, "Reputation Building Under Uncertain Monitoring" (2016). Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers. 2493.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cowles-discussion-paper-series/2493