ECON 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Resale Price Maintenance, Market Power, Perfect Competition
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Oligopoly- a market structure in which only a few sellers offer similar or identical products. Game theory- the study of how people behave in strategic situations. Collusion- an agreement among firms in a market about quantities to produce or prices to charge. Cartel- a group of firms acting in unison. Nash equilibrium- a situation in which economic actors interacting with one another each chose their best strategy given the strategies that all the other actors have chosen. Prisoners" dilemma- a particular game between two captured prisoners that illustrates why cooperation is difficult to maintain even when it is mutually beneficial. Dominant strategy- a strategy that is best for a player in a game regardless of the strategies chosen by the other players. An oligopoly with only two members is called a duopoly. If jack and jill work together they can produce the optimal monopoly quantity.