Two Large Electronic Retailers, Biggest Buy and Connection City, Are

question 50

Essay

Two large electronic retailers, Biggest Buy and Connection City, are considering entering a small town.Each firm can either enter the market or not.The table shows the payoff matrix of daily profits that each firm would receive from its entry decision, given the entry decision of its rival.Profits in each cell of the payoff matrix are given as (Biggest Buy, Connection City).Are there any dominant strategies in the game? If this game is played only once and each firm makes the entry decision independently, what is the Nash equilibrium of this game? Explain your conclusions.

Explain how a firm's marginal cost curve relates to its decision-making in perfectly competitive product and labor markets.

Understand the impact of changes in the price of output on the demand for labor and the marginal revenue product of labor.

Understand how increases in wage rates affect labor demand, other input employment, and firm output levels.

Comprehend the concept of marginal revenue product (MRP) and how it relates to hiring decisions.

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