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The Determinants of Market Outcomes might include the firms’ respective levels of know-how and the managerial quality of their production processes. When choosing a specification for a production function, it is important to be aware of the implications of a given functional form in terms of assumptions being made about the actual production process. Some functional forms are more flexible than others in that different values for the parameters can accommodate many different technological realities.

In other words, the strategic variables—perhaps advertising, prices, quantity, or product quality—and the specific way firms in the industry react to decisions made by rival firms in the industry will determine the market outcomes we observe. The primary lesson of game theory for firms is that they should spend as much time thinking about their rivals as they spend thinking about their own preferences and decisions. When firms do that, we say that they are interacting strategically. Evidence for strategic interaction is often quite easy to find in corporate strategy and pricing documents.

15. 16. Firm 1’s best response to any given q2 is where it reaches highest isoprofit contour. The figure reveals an important characteristic of the model: for a fixed output of firm 1, firm 1’s profits increase as firm 2 lowers its output. If the competitor chooses not to produce, the profit-maximizing response is to produce the monopoly output and make monopoly profits. 1 0:5 0/0:5 D 0:25: More generally, the first-order conditions in the Cournot game produce the familiar condition that marginal revenue is equated to marginal costs.

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