This website uses cookies.

By clicking the "Accept" button or continuing to browse our site, you agree to first-party and session-only cookies being stored on your device to enhance site navigation and analyze site performance and traffic. For more information on our use of cookies, please see our Privacy Policy.

  1. Home
  2. Journals
  3. Journal of Economic Perspectives
  4. Summer 1987
  5. Economic Puzzles: Noisy Prisoners, Manhattan Locations, and More

Journal of Economic Perspectives

ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)

Economic Puzzles: Noisy Prisoners, Manhattan Locations, and More

  • Barry Nalebuff
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 1, no. 1, Summer 1987
(pp. 185–191)
Download Full Text PDF
(Complimentary)

Abstract

Each "Puzzles" will begin with a few speed problems. These puzzles have answers provided in the same issue. Puzzles 1 and 2 will give you a chance to get up to speed. Then, we continue with longer puzzles taken from two very broadly defined categories: strategy puzzles and theory puzzles. Strategy puzzles will give the readers an opportunity to compete against each other in problems of coordination and competition. The third puzzle, a noisy prisoner's dilemma tournament, falls dead center in this category. Theory puzzles are meant to offer mathematical problems that have an economic interpretation. The fourth puzzle, an optimal location problem, is in this category.

Citation

Nalebuff, Barry. 1987. "Economic Puzzles: Noisy Prisoners, Manhattan Locations, and More." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1 (1): 185–191. DOI: 10.1257/jep.1.1.185

JEL Classification

  • 011 General Economics
There are no comments for this article.
Login to Comment