Explaining Incentives in a Coordination Game
The payoff matrix below shows the outcomes (in thousands of dollars) for two programmers, Astrid and Bettina, based on their independent choice of programming language. Astrid's payoff is the first number in each pair. Explain why both programmers have an incentive to choose the same language, but also have a conflict over which language to choose.
| Bettina: Java | Bettina: C++ | |
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| Astrid: Java | (4, 3) | (1, 1) |
| Astrid: C++ | (2, 2) | (3, 4) |
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