Canadian Airline conducted market research to determine the expectations of business travelers-its target market. It learned business travelers don't view air travel as a simple product any more, but as a sequential process with a series of customer service interactions which to them seemed at times arbitrary. A traveler could not estimate how much time it would take to make reservations, to check-in, to board etc., because the time spent on these activities was typically directly related to the experience and training of the airline's employees. Canadian Airline could provide better service to its target customers if it could:

Assume that a national restaurant firm called bbq builds 10 new restaurants at a cost of $1 million per restaurant. it outfits each restaurant with an additional $200,000 of equipment and furnishings. to partially defray the cost of this expansion, bbq issues and sells 200,000 shares of stock at $30 per share. what is the amount of economic investment that ahs resulted from bbq's actions? how much purely financial investment took place?

T-comm makes a variety of products. it is organized in two divisions, north and south. the managers for each division are paid, in part, based on the financial performance of their divisions. the south division normally sells to outside customers but, on occasion, also sells to the north division. when it does, corporate policy states that the price must be cost plus 20 percent to ensure a "fair" return to the selling division. south received an order from north for 300 units. south's planned output for the year had been 1,200 units before north's order. south's capacity is 1,500 units per year. the costs for producing those 1,200 units follow

Evaluate a real situation between two economic actors; it could be any scenario: two competing businesses, two countries in negotiations, two kids trading baseball cards, you and another person involved in an exchange or anything else. use game theory to analyze the situation and the outcome (or potential outcome). be sure to explain the incentives, benefits and risks each face.