Assume that the competition between Boeing and Airbus can be characterized by the following matrix Airbus Produce Quit 90/0 0/0 Boeing Produce 5/15 Quit 0/110 where the first number in each cell denotes the payoff that Boeing receives and the second number is the payoff that Airbus receives. Then you would expect both Boeing and Airbus to produce Boeing to leave the market and Airbus to keep producing O Airbus to leave the market and Boeing to keep producing that there will be no stable equilibrium

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