In a repeated game with imperfect public information, the set of equilibria depends on the way that the distribution of public signals varies with the players' actions. Recent research has focused on the case of "frequent monitoring," where the time interval between periods becomes small. Here...

This book brings together the joint work of Drew Fudenberg and David Levine (through 2008) on the closely connected topics of repeated games and reputation effects, along with related papers on more general issues in game theory and dynamic games. The unified presentation highlights the...

We examine self-referential games in which there is a chance of understanding an opponent's intentions. Our main focus is on the interaction of two sources of information about opponents' play: direct observation of the opponent's code-of-conduct, and indirect observation of the opponent's play...