Cycles of Conflict: An Economic Model

We propose a model of cycles of conflict and distrust. Overlapping generations of agents from two groups sequentially play coordination games under incomplete information about whether the other side consists of bad types who always take bad actions. Good actions may be misperceived as bad and infor...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron, Wolitzky, Alexander Greenberg
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96000
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491