Patience or Fairness? Analyzing Social Preferences in Repeated Games

This paper investigates how the introduction of social preferences affects players’ equilibrium behavior in both the one-shot and the infinitely repeated version of the Prisoner’s Dilemma game. We show that fairness concerns operate as a ”substitute” for time discounting in the infinitely repeated g...

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Main Authors: John Duffy, Félix Muñoz-García
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2012-03-01
Series:Games
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/3/1/56/