Strategic interactions

Question 1

Some scholars imagined that in the prisoners’ dilemma that could be considered a small probability delta of collaboration between the burglars

Answer 1

True, 9

Question 2

In an indefinitely repeated prisoners’ dilemma, the best strategy is TIT-FOR-TAT

Answer 2

True, 19

Question 3

In the tit for tat strategy you need to start with cooperation

Answer 3

True, 11

Question 4

Tit for tat is a winning strategy because it’s forgiver

Answer 4

True, 11

Question 5

Tit for tat is a winning strategy because it’s unforgiving

Answer 5

False, 11

Question 6

Andreoli and miller experiment?????????????

Question 7

Andreoli and miller’s experiment showed that participants were not altruistic

Answer 7

False, 15

Question 8

Andreoli and miller’s experiment showed that participants are not strategically very sophisticated

Answer 8

True, 15

Question 9

The typical payoff function of a public good game is

Initial endowment minus subject’s private contribution plus summation of others’ contribution

Answer 9

False, you must consider the productivity factor also, 17

Question 10

Conditional cooperation means that people condition their contribution level to the contribution of others

Answer 10

True, 18

Question 11

Conditional cooperation is a preference per se

Answer 11

False, 18

Question 12

Conditional cooperation might be given because of inequity aversion

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Conditional cooperation is due to reciprocity

Answer 13

False, other factors exist, 18

Question 14

In the conditional cooperation game, if a person is the last to decide, they will contribute zero despite any other behavior from the previous players

Answer 14

True, 21

Question 15

In games characterized by coordination, players optimize their benefits by choosing strategies that are different from one another

Answer 15

False, 28

Question 16

In the chicken game it is important to let the other think that you will never decide to steer

Answer 16

True, 32

Question 17

In international history, Nixon played the chicken game with URSS

Answer 17

True

Question 18

In the battle of the sexes, if both agents can communicate, the output is worse that if only one can

Answer 18

True, 35

Question 19

In the stag-hunt game, the hare strategy is largely majoritan

Answer 19

True, 40

Question 20

In the stag-hunt game, two way communication is raising the output more than one way communication

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Social preferences can be categorized in pro-social preferences or anti-social preferences

Answer 21

True, 42

Question 22

A subject is characterized bu pure altruism if she derives pleasure from others’ well-being

Answer 22

True, 46

Question 23

Impure altruism means that you give away because the others’ pleasure gives pleasure to you (warm-glow)

Answer 23

True, 46

Question 24

Welfare-enhacing preferences ???

Question 25

Inequirt aversion???????????’

Question 26

Spite is contrary to equity

Answer 26

False, contrary to altruism, 50

Question 27

The ultimatum game shows well nastiness

Answer 27

False, it is spite, 53

Question 28

Nastiness in observed in the joy-of-destruction game

Answer 28

True, 53

Question 29

The capucine monkeys experiment shows envy

Answer 29

True, 54

Question 30

Experiments on deception shows that there are honest people

Answer 30

True, 57

Question 31

When people do deception, they might not optimize their behavior

Answer 31

True, 57

Question 32

Experiments showed that people care more about fairness than about their social image

Answer 32

False, 59