In a perfect market, firms are "price takers." In the real world, they are players in a game.
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Nash Equilibrium: A situation where no player can benefit by changing their strategy while others keep theirs unchanged.Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Refining the Nash Equilibrium to eliminate "incredible threats" in sequential games.Information Asymmetry: Exploring what happens when one party knows more than the other, leading to Moral Hazard or Adverse Selection.
An "intuitive approach" argues that before you write a Lagrangian, you must be able to tell a story. For example: