Eco 550 Essay

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Chapter 13 15. A math graduate student explains to her friend how to approach a group of smart attractive guys who have brought along famous actor Russell Crowe. What should her friend do? Ignore Russell Crowe or fixate on Russell Crowe? Explain the equilibrium reasoning underlying your answer. Given this game, if math graduate friend is the first student to choose then it is in the best interest of her friend to fixate RC as this will leave the other student to have no choice but to play Ignore RC leading to BEST payoff for her friend and a BETTER payoff for other student However, if she is the second player to choose then it is in her best interest to play fixate RC if other player choose to ignore RC leading to a payoff of BEST for her and BETTER for other student and ignore RC if other player chooses to fixate RC leading to a payoff of BEST for other student and BETTER for her. BETTER and BETTER, BEST are the only two Nash Equilibriums of this game, in other words the two payoffs where both the student are doing best given the choice of other student and no player has an incentive to deviate. Chapter 14 3. b. . American Export Import Shipping Company operates a general cargo carrier service between New York and several Western European ports. It hauls two major categories of freight: manufactured items and semi manufactured raw materials. The demand functions for these two classes of goods are: P1=100-2Q1 P2=80-Q2 where Q1= tons of freight moved. The total cost function for American is TC=20+4(Q1+Q2) b. What are the profit maximizing levels of price and output for the two freight categories? Solution: - Computation of profit maximizing levels of price and output for the two freight categories Marginal Cost for Market 1(Retail outlets) = MC1=d (TC)/dQ1=4 TR1=100Q1-2Q1^2 Marginal Revenue for Market 1=MR1=d (TR1)/dQ1=60-4Q1 For Profit

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