Suppose there is a remote stretch of highway along which two restaurants, Last Chance Café and Desolate Diner, operate in a duopoly. Neither restaurant invests in keeping up with health code regulations, but regardless they both have customers as they are the only dining options along a 79- mile portion of the road. Both restaurants know that if they clean up and comply with health codes they will attract more customers, but this also means that they will have to pay workers to do the cleaning. If neither restaurant cleans, each will earn $11,000; alternatively, if they both hire workers to clean, each will earn only $8,000. However, if one cleans and the other doesn't, more customers will choose the cleaner restaurant; the cleaner restaurant will make $15,000, and the other restaurant will make only $3,000. Complete the following payoff matrix using the information just given. (Note: Last Chance Café and Desolate Diner are both profit-maximizing firms.) Last Chance Café Cleans Up Doesn't Clean Up S $ Cleans Up $ $ Desolate Diner $ $ Doesn't Clean Up $ S If Last Chance Café and Desolate Diner decide to collude, the outcome of this game is as follows: Last Chance Café Diner and Desolate If both restaurants decide to cheat and behave noncooperatively, the outcome reflecting the unique Nash equilibrium of this game is as follows: Last Chance Café and Desolate Diner
Suppose there is a remote stretch of highway along which two restaurants, Last Chance Café and Desolate Diner, operate in a duopoly. Neither restaurant invests in keeping up with health code regulations, but regardless they both have customers as they are the only dining options along a 79- mile portion of the road. Both restaurants know that if they clean up and comply with health codes they will attract more customers, but this also means that they will have to pay workers to do the cleaning. If neither restaurant cleans, each will earn $11,000; alternatively, if they both hire workers to clean, each will earn only $8,000. However, if one cleans and the other doesn't, more customers will choose the cleaner restaurant; the cleaner restaurant will make $15,000, and the other restaurant will make only $3,000. Complete the following payoff matrix using the information just given. (Note: Last Chance Café and Desolate Diner are both profit-maximizing firms.) Last Chance Café Cleans Up Doesn't Clean Up S $ Cleans Up $ $ Desolate Diner $ $ Doesn't Clean Up $ S If Last Chance Café and Desolate Diner decide to collude, the outcome of this game is as follows: Last Chance Café Diner and Desolate If both restaurants decide to cheat and behave noncooperatively, the outcome reflecting the unique Nash equilibrium of this game is as follows: Last Chance Café and Desolate Diner
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Suppose there is a remote stretch of highway along which two restaurants, Last Chance Café and Desolate Diner, operate in a duopoly. Neither
restaurant invests in keeping up with health code regulations, but regardless they both have customers as they are the only dining options along a 79-
mile portion of the road. Both restaurants know that if they clean up and comply with health codes they will attract more customers, but this also
means that they will have to pay workers to do the cleaning.
If neither restaurant cleans, each will earn $11,000; alternatively, if they both hire workers to clean, each will earn only $8,000. However, if one cleans
and the other doesn't, more customers will choose the cleaner restaurant; the cleaner restaurant will make $15,000, and the other restaurant will
make only $3,000.
Complete the following payoff matrix using the information just given. (Note: Last Chance Café and Desolate Diner are both profit-maximizing firms.)
Last Chance Café
Cleans Up
Doesn't Clean Up
Desolate Diner
Cleans Up
$
88
$
$
Doesn't Clean Up
$
S
If Last Chance Café and Desolate Diner decide to collude, the outcome of this game is as follows: Last Chance Café
Diner
and Desolate
If both restaurants decide to cheat and behave noncooperatively, the outcome reflecting the unique Nash equilibrium of this game is as follows: Last
Chance Café
▼, and Desolate Diner
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