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Match the correct structure with its name/location

This is an image of a Sheep’s heart.  The letter at “E” is pointing to the _______ .  The letter at “I” is pointing to the  _______ , while the line at “F” is pointing externally at the  left _______

The two leading U.S. manufacturers of high performance radial tires must set their advertising strategies for the coming year. Each firm has two strategies available: maintain current advertising or increase advertising by 15%. The strategies available to the two firms, G and B, are presented in the payoff matrix below.   The entries in the individual cells are profits measured in millions of dollars. Firm G’s outcome is listed before the comma, and Firm B’s outcome is listed after the comma. a) Which oligopoly model is best suited for analyzing this decision? Why? (Remember it is illegal to collude in the United States.) b) Carefully explain the strategy that should be used by each firm. Support your choice by including numbers.

What do we mean when we state that a particular principal-agent payment scheme is inefficient?

Traditionally, the federal government provides disaster relief funds to flood victims so that they can rebuild their homes after a major flood. However, the government has recently denied requests to rebuild some homes that were situated in flood-prone areas. This action represents an attempt to ________ the moral hazard problem associated with building private homes in risky areas

Assume that both high and low quality appliances are sold in the used appliance market. If we assume asymmetric information with sellers having more information regarding quality than buyers, which of the following is necessarily true? The A) B) C) D) 

A market with few entry barriers and with many firms that sell differentiated products is

The line at “A” is pointing to the _______ tonsil, while the line at “B” is poitning to the  _______ tonsil

The string-like structures line “C” is pointing to are called  _______ while the line at “D” is pointing to the  _______ muscle

Consider the following payoff matrix for a game in which two firms attempt to collude under the Bertrand model:   Firm B cuts Firm B colludes Firm A cuts 6,6 24,0 Firm A colludes 0,24 12,12 Here, the possible options are to retain the collusive price (collude) or to lower the price in attempt to increase the firm’s market share (cut). The payoffs are stated in terms of millions of dollars of profits earned per year. What is the Nash equilibrium for this game?