Managerial Economics & Business Strategy (Mcgraw-hill Series Economics)
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Author: Michael Baye, Jeff Prince
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Conditions in which the trigger strategy could be used to sustain the collusive level of advertisement.
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At a time when demand for ready-to-eat cereal was stagnant, a spokesperson for the cereal maker Kellogg’s was quoted as saying, “ . . . for the past several years, our individual company growth has come out of the other fellow’s hide.” Kellogg’s has been producing cereal since 1906 and continues to implement strategies that make it a leader in the cereal industry. Suppose that when Kellogg’s and its largest rival advertise, each company earns $2 billion in profits. When neither company advertises, each company earns profits of $16 billion.If one company advertises and the other does not, the company that advertises earns $56 billion and the company that does not advertise loses $4 billion. For what range of interest rates could these firms use trigger strategies to support the collusive level of advertising?Instruction: Enter your response as a percentage rounded to the nearest whole number.
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for the past several years, our individual company growth has come out of the other fellow's hide." Kellogg's has been producing
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