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Games in Normal Form

In: Game Theory with Applications in Operations Management

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  • R. K. Amit

    (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)

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Chapters 1 and 2 provided the background for the remainder of this book. In this chapter, we consider normal-form games, a representation of noncooperative games, to model strategic situations when the players move simultaneously. We study different solution concepts for such a class of games and discuss their existence and computation. We begin this chapter with some examples. This is one of the most commonly used examples to illustrate basic ideas of game theory. In the prisoner’s dilemma, two prisoners are being convicted for a crime. Lacking credible evidence, the authorities question the prisoners independently to know whether they committed the crime. No preplay communication is allowed. Each prisoner has two possible actions: $$\{C,D\}$$ { C , D } —confess the crime (C) and do not confess (D). This is also a bimatrix game, and the payoff matrix is shown in Fig. 3.1.

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  • R. K. Amit, 2024. "Games in Normal Form," Springer Texts in Business and Economics, in: Game Theory with Applications in Operations Management, chapter 0, pages 21-55, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sptchp:978-981-99-4833-8_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-4833-8_3
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