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- 1. Two firms compete in price in a market for infinite periods. In this market, there are N consumers; each buys one unit per period if the price does not exceed $10 and nothing otherwise. Consumers buy from the firm selling at a lower price. In case both firms charge the same price, assume N/2 consumers buy from each firm. Assume zero production cost for both firms. A possible strategy that may support the collusive equilibrium is: Announce a price of $10 if the equilibrium price has always been $10; otherwise, announce the price as in Nash equilibrium of the one-shot Bertrand game. 1.a Let 6 be the discount factor. Find the condition on 6 such that the above strategy can indeed support the collusive equilibrium. Now suppose that Firm 2's marginal cost is $4, but Firm 1's marginal cost remains at zero. 1.b Find the condition on & under which Firm 2 will not deviate from the collusive equilibrium.1. Two firms compete in price in a market for infinite periods. In this market, there are N consumers; each buys one unit per period if the price does not exceed $10 and nothing otherwise. Consumers buy from the firm selling at a lower price. In case both firms charge the same price, assume N/2 consumers buy from each firm. Assume zero production cost for both firms. A possible strategy that may support the collusive equilibrium is: Announce a price of $10 if the equilibrium price has always been $10; otherwise, announce the price as in Nash equilibrium of the one-shot Bertrand game. 1.a Let & be the discount factor. Find the condition on & such that the above strategy can indeed support the collusive equilibrium. Now suppose that Firm 2's marginal cost is $4, but Firm 1's marginal cost remains at zero. 1.b Find the condition on & under which Firm 2 will not deviate from the collusive equilibrium. 1.c Find the condition on under which Firm 1 will not deviate from the collusive…Two firms produce identical products at zero cost, and theycompete by setting prices. If each firm charges a low price,then both firms earn profits of zero. If each firm charges ahigh price, then each firm earns profits of £30. If one firmcharges a high price and the other firm charges a low price,the firm that charges the lower price earns profits of £50, andthe firm charging the higher price earns profits of zero. (a) Which oligopoly model best describes this situation?(b) Write this game in normal form.(c) Suppose the game is infinitely repeated. Can theplayers sustain the "collusive outcome" as a Nashequilibrium if the interest rate is 50 percent? Explain. Please answer the a, b and c parts.
- Suppose OPEC has only two producers, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, Saudi Arabia has far more oil reserves and is the lower-cost producer compared to Nigeria. The payoff matrix in the table to the right shows the profits earned per day by each country. "Low output" corresponds to producing the OPEC assigned quota and "high output" corresponds to producing the maximum capacity beyond the assigned quota Which of the following statements is true? OA. The Nash equilibrium is a cooperative equilibrium. OB. The Nash equilibrium is a noncooperative, dominant strategy equilibrium OC. The Nash equilibrium is a collusive equilibrium. D. There is no Nash equilibrium in this game because each party. pursues its dominant strategy. Low output Nigeria High output Low output Nigeria earns $20 million Saudi Arabia Nigeria earns $30 million Saudi Arabia earns $100 million Saudi Arabia earns $80 million High output Nigeria earns $12 million Saudi Arabia earns $75 million Nigeria earns $20 million Saudi Arabia…2. An industry contains two firms that have identical cost functions C(q)=10+2q. The inverse demand function for the market is P=50-2Q where Q is the total industry output. Assuming the firms compete in quantities: Find the firms' best response functions. b. Solve for the Cournot Nash Equilibrium of the game. What is the total industry output in equilibrium? What is the equilibrium price? с. i. If both firms could collude, what would the industry output and price be? Suppose they decide that each firm produces half of the industry output found in part (i). Is this agreement self-enforcing? Explain. ii. a.6. Two firms, Firm 1 and Firm 2 and are competing in quantities. The demand they are facing is given by p=1-91-92, with p being the price of the good, and 9₁ and 92 the quantities produced by firm 1 and 2 respectively. The total cost of firm 1 is TC1 (91) = 9₁ and the one of firm 2 is TC₂ (92) = 292. (a) Find the Cournot equilibrium. (b) The government decides that it wants to make the market more competitive. As such it decides to offer to Firm 1 a license to become the leader in the market. The licence costs F, and if Firm 1 buys it, it will be allowed to choose its quantity before Firm 2. What is the maximum Firm 1 would be willing to pay for this license?
- Two firms produce the samecommodity, both with zero cost. The demand for this commodity is D(P) = 100−P.The two firms can each produce at most 50 units. They compete on price andrationing is efficient: if pi < pj then the demand that j faces is Dj(p) = D(pj) − qi,where qi is the quantity supplied by firm i. That is, the lower price firm gets to sellfirst. Is the price list p = (p1, p2) = (0, 0) a Nash equilibrium? Prove your assertion.Suppose that there are two firms producing a homogenous product and let the market demand besiven by Q(P) = 120 -P/2 . For simplicity assume that each fir operates with zero total cost. a) Assuming that firms compete over quantities, find the price best-response functions of firms 1 and2. Draw a diagram that shows the BRFs and the equilibrium, Are outputs strategic substitutes orcomplements? Find each firm's Cournot equilibrium output, price, profit, and total surplus. DefineNash equilibrium and argue that it is indeed a Nash equilibrium. b) Show that the duopolists have incentives to collude, Find their joint profit-maximizing price, output,and profit: find each firm's output and profit. Is collusion a Nash equilibrium? If not, what is theoptimal defection for each firm? Show this game in a 2X2 matrix form. What does this imply aboutthe Nash equilibrium or the stability of their collusive agreement? Is it a Prisoner's Dilemma Type? c) Suppose now that fims play the above game in…The marginal cost of a product is fixed at MC = 20. The demand for the product is Q = 100 - 2P. (a) Now consider a Cournot model with two firms that are choosing quantities simultaneously. What is the best reply (best response) function for each firm? What is theNash equilibrium? What is the total surplus? (b)What do you expect the total surplus would be with three firms? Why? (You do not need to calculate an exact value. You can say ”total surplus is at least 100”, or ”total surplus is at most 80”)
- Problem 3. Consider the following game with three firms. First, firms 1 and 2 si- multancously choose quantities q1 and q2 respectively. After observing firm 1 and 2's quantities, firm 3 chooses its quantity q3. There is no production cost and the inverse demand function is p= 12 – (91 +2 + 93). (a) Compute the SPNE of this game. (b) Give an example of Nash equilibrium s* with s = 4 and s, = 6 , that is not subgame perfect. game theory questionI need solution for only 1.d. Thanks a lot. Solution for 1d please. Two firms compete in price in a market for infinite periods. In this market, there are N consumers; each buys one unit per period if the price does not exceed $10 and nothing otherwise. Consumers buy from the firm selling at a lower price. In case both firms charge the same price, assume N/2 consumers buy from each firm. Assume zero production cost for both firms. A possible strategy that may support the collusive equilibrium is: Announce a price of $10 if the equilibrium price has always been $10; otherwise, announce the price as in Nash equilibrium of the one-shot Bertrand game. 1.a Let δ be the discount factor. Find the condition on δ such that the above strategy can indeed support the collusive equilibrium. Now suppose that Firm 2’s marginal cost is $4, but Firm 1’s marginal cost remains at zero. 1.b Find the condition on δ under which Firm 2 will not deviate from the collusive equilibrium. 1.c Find the…Let ci be the constant marginal and average cost for firm i (so that firms may have different marginal costs). Suppose demand is given by P=1-Q. Calculate the Nash equilibrium quantities assuming there are two firms in a Cournot market. Also compute market output, market price, firm profits, industry prof- its, consumer surplus, and total welfare. Represent the Nash equilibrium on a best-response function diagram. Show how a reduction in firm 1’s cost would change the equilibrium. Draw a representative isoprofit for firm 1.