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Explain the practice of resale price maintenance and discuss why it is controversial.

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In a two-person repeated game,a tit-for-tat strategy starts with

A) cooperation and then each player mimics the other player's last move.
B) cooperation and then each player is unresponsive to the strategic moves of the other player.
C) noncooperation and then each player pursues his or her own self-interest.
D) noncooperation and then each player cooperates when the other player demonstrates a desire for the cooperative solution.

E) A) and D)
F) All of the above

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Oligopolies can end up looking like competitive markets if the number of firms is

Scenario 17-2.Imagine that two oil companies,Lexxon and PB,own adjacent oil fields.Under the fields is a common pool of oil worth $48 million.Drilling a well to recover oil costs $4 million per well.If each company drills one well,each will get half of the oil and earn a $20 million profit ($24 million in revenue - $4 million in costs) .Assume that having X percent of the total wells means that a company will collect X percent of the total revenue. -Refer to Scenario 17-2.If Lexxon were to drill a second well,what would its profit be if PB did not drill a second well?

Table 17-14.This table shows a game played between two players,A and B.The payoffs are given in the table as (Payoff to A,Payoff to B) . -Refer to Table 17-14.This table shows a game played between two players,A and B.The payoffs in the table are shown as (Payoff to A,Payoff to B) .Which of the following outcomes represents a Nash equilibrium in the game?

Outline the purpose of antitrust laws.What do they accomplish?

If two players engaged in a prisoner's dilemma game are likely to repeat the game,they are more likely to cooperate than if they play the game only once.

An oligopoly would tend to restrict output and drive up price if

In the case of oligopolistic markets,self-interest makes cooperation difficult and it often leads to an undesirable outcome for the firms that are involved.

When firms have agreements among themselves on the quantity to produce and the price at which to sell output,we refer to their form of organization as a

As the number of firms in an oligopoly increases,the

Which of the following statements is false?

Describe the source of tension between cooperation and self-interest in a market characterized by oligopoly.Use an example of an actual cartel arrangement to demonstrate why this tension creates instability in cartels.

If Levi Strauss & Co.were to require every retailer that carried its clothing to charge customers $42 for each pair of jeans,Levi Strauss & Co.would be practicing

Cartels in the United States are

Two suspected drug dealers are stopped by the highway patrol for speeding.The officer searches the car and finds a small bag of marijuana and arrests the two.During the interrogation,each is separately offered the following: "If you confess to dealing drugs and testify against your partner,you will be given immunity and released while your partner will get 10 years in prison.If you both confess,you will each get 5 years." If neither confesses,there is no evidence of drug dealing,and the most they could get is one year each for possession of marijuana.If each suspected drug dealer follows a dominant strategy,what should he/she do?

Which of these situations produces the largest profits for oligopolists?

The Sherman Act made cooperative agreements

A central issue in the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit involved Microsoft's integration of its Internet browser into its Windows operating system,to be sold as one unit.This practice is known as

Table 17-11 Two home-improvement stores (Big Box Deluxe and Homes R Us) in a growing urban area are interested in expanding their market share.Both are interested in expanding the size of their store and parking lot to accommodate potential growth in their customer base.The following game depicts the strategic outcomes that result from the game.Increases in annual profits of the two home-improvement stores are shown in the table below. -Refer to Table 17-11.Increasing the size of its store and parking lot is a dominant strategy for