Microeconomics
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ISBN: 9781260507140
Author: David C. Colander
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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Chapter 20, Problem 2QE
(a)
To determine
Outcomes when neither cooperates .
(b)
To determine
Suggestion to Player A about the value of cheap talk.
(c)
To determine
The way in which Player A makes her pronouncement believable.
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