WEEK 8 Flashcards
In perfect competition do price setters care about competitors prices
No
Is there competitors in a monopoly
No
Whats game theory used to do
Distinguish rational and intelligent decision makers
What are the 2 main types of games
Simultaneously played
Sequential played
Features of a simultaneously played game
Moves chosen simultaneously
Player doesn’t know the others actions
Features of a sequentially played game
Moves made one after another
Players know what the previous move was
The 3 elements of a sequential ame
Players
strategies
Play offs / utilities
How to solve a game
Stable outcome
Reached by rational thinking
Why is it best to have a stable outcome
Players don’t change their mind
Whats the best way to solve a game
Finding the Nash equilibrium
What is iterated dominance
Means illogical actions can be deleted
How to solve a game with one Nash Equil
Choose the Equil
How to solve a game with more than one Nash Equil
Choose any of them
How to solve a game with no equilibrium
No logical way to choose, turns into a probability distributions
What are the 2 types of repeated games
Finitely repeated games
Infinitely repeated games