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- rock paper scissors гock 0. -3 1 рарer 1. -1 scissors -1 3 0. (a) Show that xT= ( ) and yT= (3) together are not a Nash equilibrium 3 3 313 for this modified game. (b) Formulate a linear program that can be used to calculate a mixed strategy x € A(R) that maximises Rosemary's security level for this modified game. (c) Solve your linear program using the 2-phase simplex algorithm. You should use the format given in lectures. Give a mixed strategy x E A(R) that has an optimal security level for Rosemary and a mixed strategy y E A(C) that has an optimal security level for Colin.Player 1 Cooperate (C) Defect (D) If the game has a dominant strategy, what is it? There is none. If the game has a Nash equilibrium in pure strategies, what is it? There is none. Cooperate (C) 3,3 8,0 Cooperate (C) is a dominant strategy for both players. Defect (D) is a dominant strategy for both players. Cooperate (C) is a dominant strategy for 1, and Defect (D) is a dominant strategy for 2. C, C is the only Nash equilibrium. D, D is the only Nash equilibrium. C, C and D, D are both Nash equilibria. Player 2 Defect (D) 0,8 1,1Consider the following extensive-form game. U D A B A B -6,6 X Y X Y P 3,8 -8, 1 1,2 -2, 1 5,5 -0,0 The dashed lines represent information sets. (a) Represent this game in normal-form. (b) Derive the Nash equilibria in pure strategies. (c) Describe the (proper) subgames of this game. (d) Derive the subgame perfect Nash equilibria in pure strategies.
- Question 36 Consider the following normal form of a game. A D. (-3,-4) (-2,-5) (-1,0) (-4,-3) What is the maximin strategy of the row player? A O B24. Two individuals play the following infinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma game: Player A Cooperate Defect Player B Cooperate 3,5 7,0 Defect 0,6 1, 1 Assume that both players discount future payoffs at rate 8<1. (a) If both players play 'cooperate' every period, then what are their total payoffs?Y A BA B (PERFECT-INFO GAME) Consider the game shown at the right. -1 a. What is the number of pure strategies of Player 1? Player 2? 2 -2 4 b. How many subgames are in this game? c. Find all subgame perfect equilibria (SPE)? -2 d. Find all other NE which is not SPE. -3
- 1. Nash Equilibrium (a) Find all pure Nash Equilibria P1/P2 W X Y Z 9,9 0,7 5,5 1,1 7,0 0,0 4,2 7,7 5,5 2,4 0,0 1,1 1,1 7,7 1,1 0,0 A B C D (b) Consider the following picnic game. There are N players in the game each who can chose to bring food to the picnic or not. Let b;= {0, 1} be player i's choice of bringing food with 0 as not and 1 as yes. If they decide to bring food it comes at a cost c;(1) = 1 and no cost to bring food. Payoffs are sum of food brought minus individual cost. i. Write out the normal form matrix if N = 2 ii. If N = 2 find all pure Nash Equilibria iii. Find all pure Nash Equilibria in the general gameし(5,3) b I(2,2) も(0,0) (4,12) a (12.4) (0,0) i). List all subgame pertect Nash equilibria and name one Nash eqvilibrivm that is not subgame pertect i). How many strategies does playot and player 2 have?a) How many players does this game have? What are the strategies of each player? (b) What are the Nash equilibria of this game? (c) What are the Pareto Efficient outcomes?
- b 500,0 -10, 30 B 6,-1 0,0 C -1, 20 -20, 100 What is the Nash Equilibrium of this game? A a a. (C, c) O b. (C, b) O c. (A, a) O d. (B, b) C 20, 12 8, -2 7,800(a) Consider a ROCK PAPER SCISSOR game. Two players indicate either Rock, Paper or Scissor simultaneously. The winner is determined by: Rock crushes Scissors, Paper covers Rock, and Scissor cut Paper. In the case of a tie, there is no payoff. In the case of a win, the winner collects 5 dollars. Write the payoff matrix for this game. (b) Find the optimal row and column strategies and the value of the matrix game. 3 2 4 -2 1 -4 5NE 2). Consider the following extensive form game between two players. (1,10) u D 1 B X (a) List all pure strategies of player 2. (b) Represent this game in normal form. (c) Find all pure-strategy Nash equilibria of this game. (d) Find all SPNE (in pure strategies) of this game. (6,3) (4,2) (5,1)