The only two firms in a market are trying to decide what price to charge. The payoff matrix for this duopoly game is shown above. The payoffs are thousands of dollars of economic profit
In the Nash equilibrium, Firm A will set a price of ________ and Firm B will set a price of ________. A) $10; $20
B) $20; $10
C) $10; $10
D) $20; $20
E) $20; something, but more information is needed to determine Firm B's price
C
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In economics, the term ________ refers to a group of buyers and sellers of a product and the arrangement by which they come together to trade
A) trade-off B) collective C) cooperative D) market
A situation in which there is a reduction in quantity supplied to zero when there is the slightest decrease in price is
A) perfectly elastic supply. B) perfectly elastic demand. C) perfectly inelastic supply. D) perfectly inelastic demand.
In a society with market failure, there
a. is no pollution b. are no public goods c. is an inefficient allocation of resources d. are no markets e. is no need for a government
If a competitive firm is in short-run equilibrium, then
A) profits equal zero. B) it will not operate at a loss. C) an increase in its fixed cost will have no effect on profit. D) an increase in its fixed cost will have no effect on output.