Consider the following entry game. NW Coffee decides whether to Enter or Not Enter a market. If NW Coffee chooses Not Enter it gets a payoff of -10 and Dunkin’ Donuts (DDs) gets a payoff of 30. If NW Coffee Enters, DDs can choose to either Punish or to Cooperate. If DDs chooses Punish following Enter, the payoffs are -5 to NW Coffee and 25 to DDs. If DDs chooses to Cooperate following Enter, NW Coffee gets a payoff of 20 and DDs gets 20. What are the subgame (credible) equilibria?Group of answer choices(Enter, Cooperate).(Not Enter, Punish)(Enter, Punish)There is no subgame equilibrium.None of the other answers are correct.
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Consider the following entry game. NW Coffee decides whether to Enter or Not Enter a market. If NW Coffee chooses Not Enter it gets a payoff of -10 and Dunkin’ Donuts (DDs) gets a payoff of 30. If NW Coffee Enters, DDs can choose to either Punish or to Cooperate. If DDs chooses Punish following Enter, the payoffs are -5 to NW Coffee and 25 to DDs. If DDs chooses to Cooperate following Enter, NW Coffee gets a payoff of 20 and DDs gets 20. What are the subgame (credible) equilibria?Group of answer choices(Enter, Cooperate).(Not Enter, Punish)(Enter, Punish)There is no subgame equilibrium.None of the other answers are correct.
Solution
The subgame (credible) equilibrium in this case is (Enter, Cooperate). This is because, if NW Coffee decides to enter the market, DDs would prefer to cooperate rather than punish. This is because cooperating gives DDs a payoff of 20, which is lower than the 30 they would get if NW Coffee did not enter, but higher than the 25 they would get if they chose to punish. Therefore, the strategy of (Enter, Cooperate) is a subgame perfect equilibrium.
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