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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