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Chapter 6
6.1 Keep Quiet or communicate

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Planning
Quick review
Check homework
Explanation 6.1
Do the questions

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Quick review
Answer the following questions:

  1. What is the difference between fixed and current assets?
  2. How do you calculate the depreciation costs?
  3. What is break-even?
  4. How do you calculate the break-even sales?

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Homework 5.4 (Q. 46, 48, 52, 53)

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Explanation 6.1
Learning objectives:
  • You can explain why the economy uses the game theory
  • You can explain the prisoner's dilemma and give an example
  • You can read a payoff matrix and analyse wheter there is a prisoner's dilemma or not
  • You can explain that self-binding plays an important role at solving a prisoner's dilemma

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Game theory
When you have to make financial choices, you weigh revenues and costs (risks)

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Game theory
When you have to make financial choices, you weigh revenues and costs (risks)

We assume that everyone makes rational decisions based on this...

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Game theory
When you have to make financial choices, you weigh revenues and costs (risks)

We assume that everyone makes rational decisions based on this...

... but is that the case?

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Game theory
When you have to make financial choices, you weigh revenues and costs (risks)

We assume that everyone makes rational decisions based on this...

... but is that the case?

We study this with game theory

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Game theory
A mathematical way to gain insight in decision making. It analyses the logical outcome of a dilemma if two or more participants make rational decisions.

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Prisoners' dilemma
Best known game in game theory is the prisoners' dilemma

This is a simultaneaous game: the two prisoners can respond to the dilemma at the same time

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Prisoners' dilemma
The prisoners' dilemma is some imaginary problem prisoners can be confronted with. If every opponent puts its own interest first, the result is not optimal.

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STORY TIME
The prisoners' dilemma

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Conclusion of the story...

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Pay-off matrix
Outcomes of the prisoners' dilemma in a table

With a dominant strategy a player always chooses one option, no matter what the other does.

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Price war
A typical game situation can arise between for example supermarkets.

A price reduction by the one company results in the same reaction from the competitor. Because of this, a price war can arise.

 

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Self-binding
In case of self-binding, a company says what they are going to do in a dilemma and do not let others influence them.

The opposite of self-binding is cooperating.


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After watching the video
What would you do?
What do you think of the strategy that was played?
Is this a prisoners' dilemma?

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Get to work!
Do Q 1 - 13 (= HOMEWORK)

Questions? Raise your hand
Quietly discuss with your neighbour
NO music

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