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Games of Two Halves: Non-Experimental Evidence on Cooperation, Defection and the Prisoner’s Dilemma

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  • Stephen Dobson

    (Hull University Business School)

  • John Goddard

    ("Bangor Business School, Bangor University")

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"We develop a stylized two-period game-theoretic model of the strategic choices made by soccer teams when selecting between defensive and attacking team formations, and between non-violent and violent styles of play. Cooperative behaviour during the early stages of matches is typically superseded by non-cooperation during the latter stages. The propensity for violent play to take place in the latter stages of soccer matches is interpreted as novel non-experimental evidence that players typically resort to mutually detrimental non-cooperative forms of behaviour when the payoffs assume a prisoner’s dilemma structure. "

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  • Stephen Dobson & John Goddard, 2018. "Games of Two Halves: Non-Experimental Evidence on Cooperation, Defection and the Prisoner’s Dilemma," Review of Economic Analysis, Digital Initiatives at the University of Waterloo Library, vol. 10(3), pages 285-312, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:ren:journl:v:10:y:2018:i:3:p:285-312
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    Game theory; Prisoner’s dilemma; Hazard functions;
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    • C70 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - General

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