Z00_REND1011_11_SE_MOD4 PP3.QXD 2/21/11 12:49 PM Page M4-1 MODULE 4 Game Theory LEARNING OBJECTIVES After completing this supplement‚ students will be able to: 1. Understand the principles of zero-sum‚ two-person games. 2. Analyze pure strategy games and use dominance to reduce the size of a game. 3. Solve mixed strategy games when there is no saddle point. SUPPLEMENT OUTLINE M4.1 M4.2 M4.3 M4.4 M4.5 M4.6 Introduction Language of Games The Minimax Criterion
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Exercise on group behavior 1. Based on knowledge from your company group relate to and explain the 5-stage group development model and the punctuated equilibrium model (both very important for exam. Group analysis based on 5-stage model: * Forming. Firs task was to find out people with the same level of motivation‚ expectations and similar point of view through the vision of business idea. After finally forming the company group another task was to find out the purpose of the project
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Questions for Critical Thinking 5 Salvatore’s Chapter 10: Discussion Questions: 2 (a) The advantages of the Herfindahl index over concentration ratios is that the former uses information on all the firms in the industry‚ not just information on the market share of the largest 4‚ 8‚ or 12 firms in the industry‚ and gives a larger weight to the larger firms in the industry. (b) The disadvantage of concentration ratios and the Herfindahl index is that for the reasons indicated in Case Study
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1724160 Meric Dogan Lab Assignment 2 Prisoner ’s Dilemma Since the beginning of the history humans have been competing for their benefits. It is the basic instinct we have until we are dead. Even to born there is a race between cells. I think prisoners dilemma situation is the best example for that instinct. Kollocks (1990) declared that people are trapped by the Prisoner ’s Dilemma only if they treat themselves as prisoners by passively accepting the suboptimum strategy the
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The Prisoners’ Dilemma in the airplane industry Games of Strategy Home Assignment Tamás Seres Introduction 3 The Prisoners’ Dilemma 3 An Oligopolistic market: 5 The Case Study 6 Conclusion 8 References: 8 Introduction In today’s world the Prisoners’ Dilemma is a common phenomenon in business‚ politics and in social life as well. This paper will analyze a real life example. It will describe the airplane manufacturing industry and their two giant manufacturers:
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Clocky ClockyClocky is a brand of alarm clock outfitted with wheels‚ allowing it to hide itself in order to force the owner awake in an attempt to find it. Invented for an industrial design class by Gauri Nanda‚ then a graduate student at MIT Media Lab‚ Clocky won the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize in Economics.[1][2] After earning her Masters Degree from MIT‚ Nanda founded a company‚ Nanda Home‚ to commercialize Clocky and other home products. History The original prototype‚ built in three days‚ was
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John Forbes Nash Jr. Introduction John Forbes Nash Jr. was born on June 13th of 1928. He has greatly impacted today’s society with his works in game theory‚ differential geometry‚ and partial differential equations. His theories are used in many aspects of our lives today such as in economics‚ computing‚ evolutionary biology‚ artificial intelligence‚ accounting‚ politics and in military theory. Within his lifetime Nash has received several prestigious awards. In 1
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International Journal of Industrial Organization 19 (2001) 319–343 www.elsevier.com / locate / econbase A theory of joint venture life-cycles Indrani Roy Chowdhury a ‚ Prabal Roy Chowdhury b ‚ * b a Jadavpur University‚ Jadavpur‚ India CSDILE‚ School of International Studies ( SIS)‚ Jawaharlal Nehru University ( JNU)‚ New Delhi‚ 110067‚ India Received 1 May 1998; received in revised form 1 February 1999; accepted 1 May 1999 Abstract In this paper we provide a dynamic theory of joint venture
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then an ex-member. Their five stages of group socialization are the investigation stage‚ socialization stage‚ maintenance stage‚ resocialization stage‚ and the rememberance stage. The final theory discussed in our text is Gersick’s Punctuated Equilibrium Model. Gersick’s theory proposed that organizations go through periods of inactivity versus rapid change depending on the organization’s knowledge of times and deadlines. This theory basically states that when a group knows that it has a set time
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