To find the firm’s profits from the sales figures, assume that the price is $30, that the marginal cost is $20, and that the fixed cost of advertising is $300. (a) Fill in the profits in the following simultaneous-move game:                                          Google                                Advertise       Don’t Apple  Advertise      ?                     ?                   Don’t       ?                     ? (b) What is the Nash equilibrium of the game? What strategies result in the highest industry profits? Explain in words why the firms don’t choose those strategies?

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Suppose that total unit sales of iPhones and Android phones depends on both Apple’s and Google’s advertising expenditures:

                                         Google

                               Advertise       Don’t

Apple  Advertise      100, 100      120, 60
                  Don’t       60, 120        80, 80


To find the firm’s profits from the sales figures, assume that the price is $30, that the marginal cost is $20, and that the fixed cost of advertising is $300.


(a) Fill in the profits in the following simultaneous-move game:

                                         Google

                               Advertise       Don’t

Apple  Advertise      ?                     ?
                  Don’t       ?                     ?


(b) What is the Nash equilibrium of the game? What strategies result in the
highest industry profits? Explain in words why the firms don’t choose
those strategies?

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