Matrix showing expected payoffs.

Matrix showing expected payoffs.

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The growing number of users, about 250 million, in 2016, and the sheer number of health problems, that cause 190,000 deaths per year, are just some of the data that has rekindled the debate and discussion into the efficiency of the prohibitionist drug policies concerning drug consumption throughout the world. As a result, there has been the establi...

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... that there is indeed a probability p ∈ (0, 1) that the criminal shall be arrested, then we can establish the expected value of each action carried out by this player, about the strategy used by the Government, as shown in the payoff matrix in Table 2. The profile of strategies that was the best response for all the elements in the sequence of strategies taken up by the Government (providing the best results) and vice-versa establish the Nash equilibrium for this game. ...