On the Irrelevance of Risk Attitudes in Repeated Two-Outcome Games |
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Authors: | John Wooders Jason M Shachat |
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Institution: | a Department of Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721;b Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093 |
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Abstract: | We study equilibrium and maximin play in supergames consisting of the sequential play of a finite collection of stage games, where each stage game has two outcomes for each player. We show that for two-player supergames in which each stage game is strictly competitive, in any Nash equilibrium of the supergame, play at each stage is a Nash equilibrium of the stage game provided preferences over certain supergame outcomes satisfy a natural monotonicity condition. In particular, equilibrium play does not depend on risk attitudes. We establish an invariance result for games with more than two players when the solution concept is subgame perfection. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: C72, C9. |
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Keywords: | repeated games maximin risk attitudes zero-sum |
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