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Hannah Microeconomics Chapter 17
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Undergraduate 1
11/28/2011

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collusion
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an agreement among firms in a market about quantities to produce or prices to charge
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cartel
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a group of firms acting in unison
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Nash equilibrium
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a situation in which economic actors interacting with one another each choose their best strategy given the strategies that all the other actors have chosen
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prisoners' dilemma
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a particular "game" between two captures prisoners that illustrates why cooperation is difficult to maintain even when it is mutually beneficial
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dominant strategy
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a strategy that is best for a player in a game regardless of the strategies chosen by the other players
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