Game Theory Is Used in a Number of Areas in Economics.What

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Multiple Choice

Game theory is used in a number of areas in economics.What is the primary reason that it is used in analyzing oligopoly type market structures?

• A)The firms are producing a similar product
• B)The firms are producing differentiated products
• C)The demand curve facing the oligopolistic firms is perfectly inelastic
• D)The mutual interdependence of firms in industries with a small number of firms
• E)The demand curve the oligopolistic firm faces is downward sloping

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