Answer:
The correct answer that fills the gap is: Cartels generate the highest joint profit, they want to avoid a price war that leads to profit erosion and P=MC, a cournot oligopoly will generate more profit than a bertrand oligopoly
Explanation:
In Bertrand's model, consumers will buy the goods of the company that offers the lowest price. From this it can be intuited that the Nash equilibrium will be the one in which both companies set the same price. For this reason it is not attractive, since they are competition and for some of the two it may not be profitable to decrease the sale price of their products.
Answer: $495,000
Explanation: Opportunity cost can be defined as the cost of profits that were foregone by choosing one alternative over other. It is a part of economic cost and is not considered while calculating the accounting cost.
In the given case, company has to forego the sale of 3000 units due to the special order production, thus, the lost sale of those 3000 units is the opportunity cost of fulfilling the special order.
This, can be computed as follows :-
opportunity cost = 3000 units * $165
= $495,000
