Question 11
Each one of two political parties can choose to buy time on commercial radio shows to broadcast negative ad campaigns against their rival. These choices are made simultaneously. Due to government regulation, it is forbidden to buy more than 2 hours of negative campaign time, so that each party cannot choose an amount of negative campaigning above 2 hours. Given a pair of choices (a1,a2), the payoff of party i is given by the following function: vi (a1,a2) = ai − 2aj + aiaj − (ai)². Write the normal form representation of this game and answer the given sub-questions.
Now assume that this game is repeated infinitely and the parties cooperate and sign a binding agreement on how much to campaign according to the Q8 & Q9.