Week3 powerpoint

 5-6 slide

In your presentation, address the following:

• Explain what a game is in the text’s sense (players, strategies, payoffs).
• Distinguish between noncooperative games (such as the airline output example) and cooperative bargaining games.
• Describe the Nash equilibrium concept.
  • Explain how it helps account for strategic behavior in oligopolistic settings, where firms choose outputs or prices without explicit agreements.
• Explain the Nash bargaining solution, including:
  • the ideas of efficiency
  • the disagreement (threat) point
  • surplus
• Show how allowing binding agreements can transform a prisoners’ dilemma outcome into a mutually better bargain.
• Apply these concepts to a real or hypothetical business situation of your choice (for example, wage bargaining between management and a union, bargaining over a merger, or negotiation between a manufacturer and retailer).
  • Explain how game theory helps managers predict rivals’ behavior, structure negotiations, and choose profit-maximizing strategies.
• Integrate at least one figure, table, or payoff matrix (you can adapt examples from the text or construct your own) and should explicitly connect your discussion back to the terminology and logic used in Chapter 12.

use book as reference  Perloff, J. M., & Brander, J. A. (2025). Managerial economics and strategy (4th ed.). Pearson Education