Group reputations, stereotypes, and cooperation in a repeated labor market

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Healy, Paul J.
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Carnegie Mellon University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.97.5.1751
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 1751-1773
• 关键词: GIFT-EXCHANGE; rational cooperation; OUTCOME DEPENDENCY; social norms; RECIPROCITY; COMPETITION; fairness; attention; equity; trust

摘要

Reputation effects and other-regarding preferences have both been used to predict cooperative outcomes in markets with inefficient equilibria. Existing reputation building models require either infinite time horizons or publicly observed identities, but cooperative outcomes have been observed in several moral hazard experiments with finite horizons and anonymous interactions. This paper introduces a full reputation equilibrium (FRE) with stereotyping (perceived type correlation) in which cooperation is predicted in early periods of a finitely repeated market with anonymous interactions. New experiments generate results in line with the FRE prediction, including final-period reversions to stage-game equilibrium and noncooperative play under unfavorable payoff parameters.