Maintaining a Reputation when Strategies are Imperfectly Observed

Maintaining a Reputation When Strategies Are Imperfectly Observed

A framework for imperfectly observed networks

Model a network as an edge-weighted graph, where the (unknown) weight we of edge e indicates the frequency of observed interactions, and over time t we observe a Poisson(twe) number of interactions across edges e. How should we estimate some given statistic of the underlying network? This leads to wide-ranging and challenging problems, on which this article makes only partial progress.

Investigating species co-occurrence patterns when species are detected imperfectly

1. Over the last 30 years there has been a great deal of interest in investigating patterns of species co-occurrence across a number of locations, which has led to the development of numerous methods to determine whether there is evidence that a particular pattern may not have occurred by random chance. 2. A key aspect that seems to have been largely overlooked is the possibility that species m...

Pollution markets with imperfectly observed emissions

I study the advantages of pollution permit markets over traditional standard regulations when the regulator has incomplete information on firms’ emissions and costs of production and abatement (e.g., air pollution in large cities). Because the regulator only observes each firm’s abatement technology but neither its emissions nor its output, there are cases in which standards can lead to lower e...

Maintaining a Reputation Against a Patient Opponent1

We analyze reputation in a game between a patient player 1 and a nonmyopic but less patient opponent, player 2. Player 1’s type is private information and he may be a "commitment type" who is locked into playing a particular strategy. We assume that players do not directly observe each other's action but rather see an imperfect signal of it. In particular, we assume that the support of the dist...