Evaluate the following statement. The Cournot model basically assumes that the sole decision of each firm in a duopoly is one of determining how much to produce not which price to set

What will be an ideal response?


This is essentially correct. Once each firm determines how much it is going to produce based on what its rival produces then the industry wide output determines the price that each will charge in order to sell that level of output.

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