Predictive Certainty in Strategic Interactions
Imagine two distinct two-player games, Game A and Game B. In Game A, each player has a single strategy that is their best choice, regardless of what the other player does. In Game B, each player's best strategy is only optimal if they correctly anticipate the strategy their opponent will choose. Explain why an economist would be significantly more confident in predicting the outcome of Game A than Game B, even if both games have a single, stable outcome.
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