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Discount factor and deviating from strategy - Game Theory

Economics Asked by The Poor Jew on December 21, 2020

I have an exercise in Steven Tadelis Game theory Introduction book (10.2) :

Grim Trigger: Consider the infinitely repeated game with discount factor
$δ < 1$ of the following variant of the Prisoner’s Dilemma:

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a) For which values of the discount factor δ can the players support the
pair of actions (M, C) played in every period?

My attempt is:

First, I find the Nash equilibrium of the game (so we know where the player would deviate if not following the proposed strategy):

For the row player we see that Row T and M are dominated by B, so we leave row B and delete the former 2 rows. Then for the column player, we see that the columns L and C are dominated by R, so we leave R and delete the former 2 rows. So our Nash Equilibrium is (B,R) with payoff $(0,0)$.

By a definition in my textbook:

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So the expected value of staying with the strategy $(M,c)=(4,4)$ is :

$4+delta 4+delta^2 4+….=4sum^{infty}_{t=1}delta^{t-1}= 4/(1-delta) = 4+4delta/(1-delta)$

Now, if the players deviate to $(0,0)$, then they would get $5$ insted of $4$ in the immediate stafe of the deviation, followed by his continuation payoff:

$v_i’=5+0delta+0delta^2_+…=5$

For the player to stay and not deviate, the payoff for the first strategy should be higher than the latter strategy (where they deviate):

$$4+4delta/(1-delta)geq 5 Leftrightarrow delta geq 1/5$$

So, for $delta geq 1/5$, the players would not deviate.

Would this reasoning/solution be correct?

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