This paper develops a framework to assess how fear of miscoordination affects the sustainability of cooperation. Building on theoretical insights from Carlsson and van Damme (1993), it explores the effect of small amounts of private information on a class of dynamic cooperation games with exit. Lack of common knowledge leads players to second guess each other's behavior and makes coordination difficult. This restricts the range of equilibria and highlights the role of miscoordination payoffs in determining whether cooperation is sustainable or not. The paper characterizes the range of perfect Bayesian equilibria as the players' information becomes arbitrarily precise. Unlike in one‐shot two‐by‐two games, the global games information structure does not yield equilibrium uniqueness.
MLA
Chassang, Sylvain. “Fear of Miscoordination and the Robustness of Cooperation in Dynamic Global Games With Exit.” Econometrica, vol. 78, .no 3, Econometric Society, 2010, pp. 973-1006, https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA7324
Chicago
Chassang, Sylvain. “Fear of Miscoordination and the Robustness of Cooperation in Dynamic Global Games With Exit.” Econometrica, 78, .no 3, (Econometric Society: 2010), 973-1006. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA7324
APA
Chassang, S. (2010). Fear of Miscoordination and the Robustness of Cooperation in Dynamic Global Games With Exit. Econometrica, 78(3), 973-1006. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA7324
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