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One is there's an incentive to cheat
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and another is that other firms are going to enter.
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Before we leave this, let's just pose the question we started with.
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Suppose, in fact, we do end up back at the Cournot quantity.
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So here we are back at the Cournot quantity.
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How does this quantity compare and how do therefore the prices compare,
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and how do profits compare with monopoly prices on the one hand,
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and competitive prices on the other?
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So we know the quantity that's going to be produced.
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We figured that out; here it is.
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We know the quantities going to be produced.
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Each firm is going to produce a - c over 3b