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c. Dominant Strategy – Gives higher payoff than other strategies, regardless of other
players’ strategies.
d. Nash Equilibrium: A combination of strategies, one for each player, such that each
player is doing as well as she can given the other players’ strategies.
Eco 101, Games, page 2
Questions:
Does P1 have a dominant strategy?
Does the PD game have a Nash equilibrium?
Application: situations where there are gains to cooperation but incentives to cheat.
Examples: Arms Control, Trade Wars, Oligopoly, Marriage, Discrimination
4. Repeated Games:
Tit-for-tat Strategy for SA:
Equilibria: