A commitment strategy is an agreement in which players agree to:

A. submit to a penalty in the future if they defect from a given strategy.
B. cooperate in repeated games until someone defects.
C. cooperate before the game begins.
D. None of these is a definition of a commitment strategy.


Answer: A

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