In business or personal relationships, promises and threats of good and bad behavior tomorrow may provide good incentives for good behavior today, but, to work, these promises and threats must be credible. In particular, they must come from equilibrium behavior tomorrow, and hence form part of a subgame perfect equilibrium today. We find that the grim strate ... Show More
Jun 2018
Lecture 21
- Repeated Games: Cooperation vs. the End Game
We discuss repeated games, aiming to unpack the intuition that the promise of rewards and the threat of punishment in the future of a relationship can provide incentives for good behavior today. In class, we play prisoners’ dilemma twice and three times, but this fails to sustain ... Show More
1h 15m
Apr 2024
Episode 274: Sofia De Jesus
Send us a textExploring the Complex Landscape of AI in Education with Sofia De Jesus In this episode of the My EdTech Life Podcast, I sit down with Sofia De Jesus, an associate program manager at CMUCS Academy, CSTA Equity Fellow, and author, to discuss the intricacies of AI in e ... Show More
1h 6m
Dec 2023
“Great Buys” in Education: Maximizing learning in low and middle-income countries
In this episode, we are featuring Benjamin Piper, the Director of Global Education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ben sheds light on the groundbreaking work of the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP). With an exhaustive analysis of over 13,000 academic studi ... Show More
28m 28s