This prisoner's dilemma game shows the payoffs associated with two firms, A and B, in an oligopoly and their choices to either collude with one another or not.
Given the payoffs in the matrix shown, Firm A:
A. does not have a dominant strategy.
B. has a dominant strategy to compete.
C. has a dominant strategy to collude.
D. None of these statements is true.
Answer: B
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