The Competitive Strategy Game, created by Severin Borenstein, is a simulated market environment in which up to eight teams each compete in any of four markets, choosing which market(s) to enter, how much production capacity to build, what prices to charge, and how much output to produce. The markets differ in their fixed versus marginal costs of production, sunk entry costs, size, degree of product differentiation, growth rates, and storage characteristics. Each firm knows its own costs in each market and the distribution from which all firms' costs are drawn. The Game is useful for teaching basic economic concepts such as sunk, fixed, and marginal costs, the opportunity cost of investment, firm- and market-elasticities of demand, and product differentiation. It also is immediately applicable to discussions of entry deterrence, first-mover advantages, preemption, competitive advantage, predation, oligopoly coordination, multimarket contact, signalling, information asymmetries, and end game issues in finitely repeated games.

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Tuck CPP Game (t8) - Tuck School at Dartmouth
Kanagawa & Kyoto Sangyo Group 1 Game (q1) - Kanagawa & Kyoto Sangyo Univ
Kanagawa & Kyoto Sangyo Group 2 Game (q2) - Kanagawa & Kyoto Sangyo Univ
CUHK MBA Game (cu) - Chinese University of Hong Kong
twenty Game (cm) - Case Western Reserve University, Department of Economics
nineteen Game (la) - Case Western Reserve University, Department of Economics
Estrategia Negocios 1E U.ORT Uruguay Game (e1) - Universidad ORT Uruguay
Estrategia Negocios E2 U.ORT Uruguay Game (e2) - Universidad ORT Uruguay
Estrategia Negocios E3 U.ORT Uruguay Game (e3) - Universidad ORT Uruguay
MREACH Mentors 08' Game (pp) - University of Michigan
OregonTest Game (yy) - University of Oregon
UofOEcon360Fall08 Game (dw) - University of Oregon
MREACH Practice 1 Game (jf) - University of Michigan
MREACH Real 1 Game (fr) - University of Michigan
MREACH Fall 08' Real 1 Game (r1) - University of Michigan
Kanagawa University Group 1 Game (a1) - Kanagawa University
Kanagawa University Group 2 Game (a2) - Kanagawa University
Kanagawa University Group 3 Game (a3) - Kanagawa University
Kanagawa University Group 4 Game (a4) - Kanagawa University
Kanagawa University Group 5 Game (a5) - Kanagawa University
MREACH Practice 2 Game (f2) - University of Michigan
MREACH Fall 08' Real 2 Game (r2) - University of Michigan
MREACH Practice 3 Game (f3) - University of Michigan
MREACH Fall 08' Real 3 Game (r3) - University of Michigan
MREACH Practice 4 Game (f4) - University of Michigan
MREACH Practice 5 Game (f5) - University of Michigan
MREACH Fall 08' Real 4 Game (r4) - University of Michigan
MREACH Fall 08' Real 5 Game (r5) - University of Michigan
METU ECON Game (ea) - METU
METU ECON Game (eb) - METU
KSU Game (k6) - Kyoto Sangyo University