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Question #1

Game theory:

A. replaces the perfectly competitive market model.

B. replaces the monopoly model.

C. is more restrictive than the standard supply/demand model.

D. is more flexible than the standard supply/demand model.

Question #2

A Nash equilibrium is:

A. the strategy that maximizes the outcome of all the players.

B. the output level that minimizes average total cost.

C. the set of strategies such that no player can improve his or her position by changing his or her own action.

D. the payoff that maximizes the joint payoff.

Question #3

A set of strategies in which no player can improve his or her payoff by changing his or her own action is called:

A. a dominant strategy

B. a Nash equilibrium.

C. a Vickrey position.

D. a framing strategy.

Question #4

If the payoffs from strategy Y are always greater than strategy X,

A. strategy X strictly dominates strategy X.

B. than the payoffs are a Nash equilibrium.

C. strategy X strictly dominates strategy Y.

D. strategy Y strictly dominates strategy X.