Question: 5. Consider a sequential game between a shopkeeper and a haggling customer. The party who moves first chooses either a high price ($50) or low
5. Consider a sequential game between a shopkeeper and a haggling customer. The party who moves first chooses either a high price ($50) or low price ($20) and the second mover either agrees to the price or walks away from the deal and neither party gets anything. Ignore costs and assume the customer values the item at $60. In the strategic view of bargaining the outcome depends on
a. Who makes the first move
b.Who can commit to a position
c. Whether or not the other party can make a countermove
d. All of the above
4. Consider a simultaneous move game between a union and a company. If both the parties bargain hard, each would gain nothing. If only one party bargains hard the accommodating party gets a profit of $1 million while the bargaining party gets a $5 million, while if they both accommodate, they each get $3 million.
If the firm hires security guards to enforce a lockout, what are they implying?
a. They would always accommodate
b. They would always bargain hard
c. They would not accommodate
d. Both B&C
6. Consider a simultaneous move game between a union and a company. If both the parties bargain hard, each would gain nothing. If only one party bargains hard the accommodating party gets a profit of $1 million while the bargaining party gets a $5 million, while if they both accommodate, they each get $3 million.
If the firm threatens a lockout (and the threat is credible), what is the unions best response?
a. Accommodate
b. Run
c. Hide
d. Bargain hard
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