Mini Lecture: Game theory - the prisoners' dilemma

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Allow our Economics academic staff to explore their subject area in a greater depth with your students, either delivered in your school or college or virtually, so they can get a taste of higher education study.

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Two prisoners suspected of committing a crime together are arrested and are put into separate cells. Each prisoner is concerned only with getting the shortest possible prison sentence for himself and must decide whether to confess or not without knowing the other prisoner’s decision. This session applies prisoners’ dilemma game theory into OPEC countries’ strategic decision of producing oil. At the end of the session, students have an opportunity to play a game with chocolates as rewards.

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