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To determine
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Walter, Yvonne, Tyler, and Phoebe are college roommates. They're trying to decide where the four of them should go for spring break: Vail or Daytona
Beach. If they order the tickets by 10:00 PM on February 1, the cost will be just $500 per person. If they miss that deadline, the cost rises to $1,200
per person.
The following table shows the benefit (in dollar terms) that each roommate would get from the two trips.
Roommate
Walter
Yvonne
Tyler
Phoebe
Benefit from Vail
$1,250
$800
$650
$600
Benefit from Daytona Beach
The roommates tend to put off making decisions. So, when February 1 rolls around and they still haven't made a decision, they schedule a vote for
9:00 PM that night. In case of a tie, they will flip a coin between the two vacation destinations.
The roommates will get the most total benefit if they choose to go to
Roommate
Walter
Yvonne
Tyler
Phoebe
$550
$800
$850
$1,050
Given the individual benefits each roommate receives from the two trips, which trip will each roommate…
Suppose that Russia and Australia (the two biggest producers of diamonds) make an
agreement to both keep the production of diamonds low in order to keep the price high.
After reaching this agreement, each country must decide whether to follow the
agreement. Suppose that they are faced with the following decision:
Russia's
Decision
High
Production
Australia's Decision
High Production
($40 b, $40 b)
Low Production
($60 b, $30 b)
Low Production ($30 b, $60 b)
where cells contain (Russia's profit, Australia's profit).
a. If the game is played only one time, characterize each country's best strategy.
($50 b, $50 b)
b. What is the Nash equilibrium? Is the Nash equilibrium pareto efficient? Briefly
explain why or why not.
c. If this were an infinitely repeated game, what outcome would you expect to
emerge as the equilibrium? Briefly explain.
When countries specialize in producing certain goods and then freely exchange those goods for other goods with different countries, what is the advantage?
Group of answer choices
Each country can consume at a point outside their production possibilities frontier.
All people in each country will be better off than they would be if they did not trade.
Each country can produce at a point outside their production possibilities frontier.
Each country can produce and consume at a point outside their production possibilities frontier.
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