Assume that the effective security level is now determined by the highest (not the lowest) security measures chosen by airlines. Letting max{s1, . . . , sn} denote the highest of the airlines’ strategies, we find that airline i’s payoff is now 50 + 20 x max{s1, . . . , sn} -10 si. Assuming the same strategy sets, find all Nash equilibria.

Assume that the effective security level is now determined by the highest (not the lowest) security measures chosen by airlines. Letting max{s1, . . . , sn} denote the highest of the airlines’ strategies, we find that airline i’s payoff is now 50 + 20 x max{s1, . . . , sn} -10 si. Assuming the same strategy sets, find all Nash equilibria.

Microeconomic Theory

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Chapter18: Asymmetric Information

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