In sequential games, the player who moves first:
A. has a first-mover advantage only when he or she is able to make a credible threat or promise to choose a dominated strategy.
B. always has a first-mover advantage.
C. has a first-mover advantage only when the second mover fails to choose the dominant strategy.
D. sometimes has an advantage and sometimes has a disadvantage.
Answer: D
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Other things remaining same, a left shift in the demand curve will lead to:
A) an increase in the equilibrium price and the equilibrium quantity. B) a decrease in the equilibrium price and the equilibrium quantity. C) a decrease in the equilibrium price and an increase in the equilibrium quantity. D) an increase in the equilibrium price and a decrease in the equilibrium quantity.
If Safeway reduced its grocery prices below cost in a particular metropolitan area and kept them there until all other grocery stores in the area had been forced into bankruptcy, Walmart would almost certainly sustain huge net losses
A) in the short run and the long run because grocery stores would reappear quickly when Walmart subsequently set high prices. B) in the short run but not in the long run because it could charge very high prices afterward. C) in the short run but not in the long run because the policy would lower Walmart's costs of buying from suppliers. D) only if the government enforced the antitrust laws in a fair and even-handed way.
When a transfer price is set lower
a. the buying division will chose to purchase less from the selling division b. the buying division will chose to purchase more from the selling division c. the selling division will chose to purchase less from the buying division d. the selling division will chose to purchase more from the buying division
A firm is operating at a scale where diseconomies of scale are present. Which of the following could help explain what that means?
a. The firm is operating at a scale where the average total cost of production is falling as output expands. b. The firm is operating at a scale where total fixed costs are not minimized c. The firm is operating at a scale where average total cost is constant as output expands. d. The firm has grown so large that average total cost increases as output expands.