Consider a remote town in which two restaurants, All-You-Can-Eat
Cafe and GoodGrub Bistro, operate in a duopoly. Both restaurants
ignore the health code, but they continue to have customers because
they are the only restaurants within 80 kilometres of town. Both
restaurants know that if they clean up, they will attract more
customers, but this also means that they have to pay workers to do
the cleaning.
If both restaurants do not clean, each will earn 8,000 euros;
alternatively, if they both hire workers to clean, each will earn
only 5,000 euros. However, if one cleans and the other doesn't,
more customers will choose the cleaner restaurant; the cleaner
restaurant will make 12,000 euros, and the other restaurant will
make only 3,000 euros.
3.1. If All-You-Can-Eat Cafe and GoodGrub Bistro decide to collude,
what is the outcome of this game?
A. All-You-Can-Eat Cafe cleans, and GoodGrub Bistrot cleans.
B. All-You-Can-Eat Cafe does not clean, but GoodGrub Bistro
cleans.
C. All-You-Can-Eat Cafe cleans, but GoodGrub Bistro does not
clean.
D. All-You-Can-Eat Cafe does not clean, and GoodGrub Bistro does
not clean.
3.2. If both restaurants decide to cheat and behave
non-cooperatively, what is the Nash equilibrium of this game?
A. All-You-Can-Eat Cafe does not clean, and GoodGrub Bistro does
not clean.
B. All-You-Can-Eat Cafe does not clean, but GoodGrub Bistro
cleans.
C. All-You-Can-Eat Cafe cleans, and GoodGrub Bistro cleans.
D. All-You-Can-Eat Cafe cleans, but GoodGrub Bistro does not clean.