ECON1000 S1 2025, GTP Assessment [30%]
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ECON1000 S1 2025 – GTP Brief
A. Context and Overview
Game Theory Presentation (GTP) is worth 30% of the final mark.
GTP is a ‘take-home’ exercise with a set of tasks to do. GTP is based on Lecture Topics: L1 & L2.
You will have up to seventeen (17) days to complete the GTP on your own.
GTP is to be submitted to Turnitin by Tuesday 1st April 11:59pm.

Timeline of GTP-specific events (local time in year 2025AD):
▪ Assessment brief available on Blackboard (Bb): 15th March, 11:59pm.
▪ Clarifications of / indirect guidance on GTP in L2(b) tutorial: Week 4 of Mar. 17th – 21st.
▪ ETA of marks/feedback on your GTP in Grade Centre is by 28th April, 9pm.

Key assessment information:
▪ GTP consists of two (2) compulsory parts, each worth particular marks. Note, the word count is a
suggested maximum.
▪ For supporting info on GTP, refer to following PDFs, available in Assessments tab on Bb:
1) GTP Brief S1 2025 [this document]
2) Marking Guidance and FAQs for GTP S1 2025
▪ Main thing is that you specifically answer the tasks and have sufficient explanations and refer to
key sentences and ideas from various articles* where relevant to support your analysis.
*= key articles are available for free online with no need for a paid subscription – alternatively,
you can access some from Curtin’s Library databases (see doc. 2).

The GTP will take up some of your thinking time, but this is a doable assessment.
A general guide on what the marker is looking for in the GTP is recalling the tutor-student discussions in
the workshop sessions on Modules L1; L2(a); and L2(b).
Your tutor as an exemplar would have gone through the process on how best to explain the payoff
matrices, and so on. The lectures on L1 and L2 might come in handy as well.

This game theory presentation (GTP) in S1 2025 relates to two games:
▪ Game 1 is about the Woolworths (Australia) strike in late 2024, worth 16 marks.
▪ Game 2 is about climate change policy between UK/EU and China, worth 14 marks.

You are to complete the 2 parts of this GTP by your human self: Gen-AI LLMs or other agent assistance
may not end up helping you in the end. Lectures, set tutorial questions, and assigned readings within
this brief and from the CORE text should be sufficient resources for you to draw upon to do the tasks
well enough. Many thanks in advance for your cooperation, Brennan AI Tech Incorporated (BAT Inc.)

IMPORTANT: When ready to submit, ONLY include answers and prepare your document as following:
Full Name and Student ID on the first page as a title in the Word document (or PDF) to Turnitin by the due
date (see Assessments tab on Bb).

ECON1000 S1 2025, GTP Assessment [30%]
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B. Assessment Tasks
Game 1 – 16 Marks
For relevant knowledge and guidance for this game, read the following articles (in chronological order):
1. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/23/woolworths-staff-efficiency-productivity-crackdown-timed
2. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-21/woolworths-warehouse-workers-strike-action-supply-chain/104628380
3. https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/woolies-began-monitoring-staff-like-never-before-it-had-a-chilling-effect-on-workers-20241205-
p5kw3r.html
4. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-07/woolworths-industrial-action-victoria/104697608
5. https://www.afr.com/companies/retail/hit-to-woolworths-sales-from-strike-grows-to-140m-expected-to-rise-20241209-p5kwvg
6. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-18/workplace-surveillance-services-australia-woolworths-go-too-far/104730476
7. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/17/woolworths-staff-fired-warehouse-workers-industrial-action-ntwnfb
Based on something akin to the ‘ultimatum game’, construct a relevant game tree for the late 2024
Woolworths strike:
▪ Identify the two key players and make explicit your assumptions and think of this as a
sequentially played game with three rounds in total over time.
o Each strategy has an associated payoff.
o Work out the associated numerical (hypothetical) payoffs, use payoff integer values of 0
to 100 to do so. Provide reasons for payoff values you assign and what they symbolise.
o Explain in words the game and each specific outcome you come across.
▪ In your analysis, discuss the power balances amongst the players and how this affects the
allocation, including a scrutiny of fairness.
800 ± 200 or so words should be sufficient
Game 2 – 14 Marks
For relevant context to setup this game, read the following key article:
https://theconversation.com/trump-has-rejected-the-paris-agreement-again-but-game-theory-shows-how-other-countries-can-still-lead-by-example-246818
Construct a relevant payoff matrix (in numbers only) based on the key article.
To help you construct the payoff matrix, here are the key parameters and assumptions:
▪ Two players – ‘Player 1’ is ‘UK/EU’, and ‘Player 2’ is ‘China’.
▪ Two strategies – ‘strong climate policy’ (SCP) or ‘weak climate policy’ (WCP).
o Work out the associated numerical (hypothetical) payoffs, use integer values to do so.
o Explain in words each quadrant and any specific outcome you come across of the game
played sequentially over the long run.
o Discuss the role of preferences amongst the players.
700 ± 200 or so words should be sufficient



















END OF GTP BRIEF S1 2025

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