Consider the following two-player game: H L TD 2,3 0,2 4,0 1,1 (a) What are (pure- and mixed-strategy) Nash equilibria of this game? (b) Suppose the game is repeated twice, and each player's payoff is the sum of the payoffs they obtain in the two periods. What are the subgame perfect equilibria of the game? (c) Suppose the game is repeated indefinitely, and each player discounts his/her payoff with a discount factor & € (0, 1). Find a subgame perfect equilibrium in which (H, T) is played in every period on the equilibrium path. Compute the discount factor & needed for this equilibrium.

Consider the following two-player game: H L TD 2,3 0,2 4,0 1,1 (a) What are (pure- and mixed-strategy) Nash equilibria of this game? (b) Suppose the game is repeated twice, and each player's payoff is the sum of the payoffs they obtain in the two periods. What are the subgame perfect equilibria of the game? (c) Suppose the game is repeated indefinitely, and each player discounts his/her payoff with a discount factor & € (0, 1). Find a subgame perfect equilibrium in which (H, T) is played in every period on the equilibrium path. Compute the discount factor & needed for this equilibrium.

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Chapter15: Oligopoly And Strategic Behavior

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