Game Theory and Doping in Sport

This video describes how game theory can explain the decision to use doping in sport by using a famous example of prisoners’ dilemma.
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Studies relevant to this video:
A study on time preferences of professional athletes:
Krumer, A., Shavit, T. and Rosenboim, M., 2011. Why do professional athletes have different time preferences than non-athletes?. Judgment and Decision Making, 6(6), p.542.
A study on conditional pension:
Wu, Q., Bayer, R.C. and Lenten, L.J., 2020. Conditional pension funds to combat cheating in sporting contests: Theory and experimental evidence. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 89, p.101537.
Studies on prisoners’ dilemma and doping:
Berentsen, A., 2002. The economics of doping. European Journal of Political Economy, 18(1), pp.109-127.
Berentsen, A., Bruegger, E. and Loertscher, S., 2008. On cheating, doping and whistleblowing. European Journal of Political Economy, 24(2), pp.415-436.
Bird, E.J. and Wagner, G.G., 1997. Sport as a common property resource: A solution to the dilemmas of doping. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 41(6), pp.749-766.
Breivik, G., 1987. The doping dilemma. Sportwissenschaft, 17, pp.83-94.
Breivik, G., 2015. Game theoretic approaches to doping in sport. In Routledge handbook of drugs and sport (pp. 393-404). Routledge.
Hanstad, D.V. and Loland, S., 2009. Elite athletes’ duty to provide information on their whereabouts: Justifiable anti-doping work or an indefensible surveillance regime?. European Journal of Sport Science, 9(1), pp.3-10.
Haugen, K.K., 2004. The performance-enhancing drug game. Journal of Sports Economics, 5(1), pp.67-86.
Haugen, K.K., Nepusz, T. and Petróczi, A., 2013. The multi-player performance-enhancing drug game. PloS One, 8(5), p.e63306.
Kräkel, M., 2007. Doping and cheating in contest-like situations. European Journal of Political Economy, 23(4), pp.988-1006.
Loland, S., 2018. Performance-enhancing drugs, sport, and the ideal of natural athletic performance. The American Journal of Bioethics, 18(6), pp.8-15.
Luce, R.D. and Raiffa, H., 1957. Games and decisions, New York: Wiley.
Petróczi, A. and Haugen, K.K., 2012. The doping self-reporting game: the paradox of a ‘false-telling’mechanism and its potential research and policy implications. Sport Management Review, 15(4), pp.513-517.
Ryvkin, D., 2013. Contests with doping. Journal of Sports Economics, 14(3), pp.253-275.
Finally, I would like to thank my friend, Alexey Solovyov for his invaluable help in shooting and editing this video. He has an excellent RUclips channel on travelling and Norwegian life. You can find it at: / alexeysolovyov

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Please note that all the references to the relevant studies appear in the description of the video.

[@gabrielpalacio6710]

Prof you should definitely continue uploading videos! They are all very fun and interesting for us sports economics/business/anything geeks!

[@galymzhankyrykbaev2976]

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[@alexeysolovyov]

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[@hananediting]

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