managerial ecomomics
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Order Paper NowIn each of the following three payoff tables, Lowe’s and Home Depot must make simultaneous decision to either cooperate or not cooperate with each other. Explain why or why not each situation represents a prisoners’ dilemma. You will need at least 50 words for each question.
1.
Home Depot |
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Don’t Cooperate |
Cooperate |
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Don’t Coop. |
100 |
100 |
300 |
200 |
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Lowe’s |
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Cooperate |
200 |
300 |
500 |
500 |
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2.
Home Depot |
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Don’t Cooperate |
Cooperate |
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Don’t Coop. |
200 |
200 |
600 |
150 |
|
Lowe’s |
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Cooperate |
150 |
600 |
500 |
500 |
|
3.
Home Depot |
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Don’t Cooperate |
Cooperate |
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Don’t Coop. |
50 |
50 |
600 |
25 |
|
Lowe’s |
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Cooperate |
100 |
200 |
300 |
300 |
|
The Tampa Tribune and the St. Petersburg Times compete for readers in the Tampa Bay market for newspapers. Recently, both newspapers considered changing the prices they charge for their Sunday editions. Suppose they considered the following payoff table for making a simultaneous decision to charge either a low price of $0.50 or a high price of $1.00. Tampa’s profits are shown in bold. St. Petersburg’s profits are in regular type.
St. Petersburg Times |
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Low Price |
High Price |
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A. |
B. |
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Low price |
$100,000 |
$120,000 |
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Tampa |
$100,000 |
$120,000 |
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Tribune |
C. |
D. |
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High Price |
$88,000 |
$98,000 |
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$54,000 |
$90,000 |
For questions 4 – 5, use the suggested words in parentheses after each blank to answer the questions. You can answer questions 6 and 7 directly. Provide a short explanation (about 50 words) to defend each answer for questions 4-7.
4.
Tampa Tribune’s dominant strategy is ____________ (low price, high price, it has no dominant strategy).
St. Petersburg Times’ dominant strategy is ____________ (low price, high price, it has no dominant strategy).
5.
This newspaper pricing decision ________ (is, is not) a Prisoners’ Dilemma.
6.
Is there a Nash Equilibrium in this game? If so, which cell(s) is/are the Nash? Is/are the Nash Dominant Strategy Equilibrium?
7.
Which cell(s) is/are strategically stable?