To Trust a Potential Cooperator Until the First Defection and Then

question 11

Multiple Choice

To trust a potential cooperator until the first defection and then never cooperate thereafter is

• A) a dominant strategy
• B) an irrational strategy
• C) a grim trigger strategy
• D) a non-cooperative finite game strategy
• E) a subgame imperfect strategy

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