Suppose that it costs $15 to produce a low-quality wallet and $16 to produce a high-quality wallet, consumers cannotdistinguish between the products before purchase, there are no repeat purchases, and consumers value the wallets at theircost of production. The twenty firms in the market produce 500 wallets each. Each firm produces only high-qualityor low-quality wallets. Consumers pay the expected value of a wallet. Do any of the firms produce high-quality wallets?A firmhave an incentive to produce high-quality wallets: If one firm makes a high-quality wallet, then each firm thatproduces low-quality wallets will earn a profit of $ and the firm that makes the high-quality wallets will earn $ (Enternumeric responses using real numbers rounded to two decimal places.)

Ans. ) Given in the question there are 20 firms in the market producing 500 wallets. There are two…

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