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The Performance-Enhancing Drug Game Reconsidered

A Fair Play Approach

Nicolas Eber

University of Strasbourg, France

In this article, the author incorporates fair play norms into the analysis of the basic performance-enhancing drug game proposed in 2004 by Haugen (in the Journal of Sports Economics). In some cases, it leads to a modification in the very nature of the game, switching it from a prisoner's dilemma to a stag hunt game characterized by two pure-strategy equilibria: a risk-dominant doping equilibrium but also a payoff-dominant no-doping one. In such cases, the main problem for athletes becomes to coordinate their intentions and, hence, find a reliable coordinating device. The author suggests that some kind of preplay communication about doping and formal agreements through an antidoping charter may serve as such a device.

Key Words: doping • prisoner's dilemma • fair play norms • stag hunt game

This version was published on June 1, 2008

Journal of Sports Economics, Vol. 9, No. 3, 318-327 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1527002507308109
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