Given the Following Payoff Diagram

question 29

Multiple Choice

Given the following payoff diagram:

How much can firm 1 improve its outcome by committing to a strategy thus transforming the simultaneous move game to a sequential move game?

• A) 5
• B) 10
• C) 15
• D) 20
• E) 20.

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