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.

More Information about the Competitive Strategy Game

Instructors interested in creating a new game.

Estrategia de Negocios 2009_1 Game (sg) - Universidad ORT
Kanagawa & Kyoto Sangyo University Group 1 Game (q1) - Kanagawa & Kyoto Sangyo University
Kanagawa & Kyoto Sangyo University Group 2 Game (q2) - Kanagawa & Kyoto Sangyo University
Ross Spring Game (2r) - Ross School of Business
San Diego Game (sd) - University of San Diego
test game Game (t0) - UCLA
Haas Test Game Game (ms) - UC Berkeley
AlaskaF09 Game (ak) - Alaska Pacific University
Managerial Econ DUK(1) Game (at) - Alaska Pacific University/DUK
Managerial Econ DUK(2) Game (au) - Alaska Pacific University/DUK
SHSU - ECO 560 Game (aa) - Sam Houston State University
SHSU - ECO 560 Game (bb) - Sam Houston State University
UofMpractice Game (tt) - University of Michigan
UofMpractice2 Game (io) - University of Michigan
Econ 302 Game (g2) - Occidental College
Game A Game (la) - Case Western Reserve University
B Game (cm) - Case Western Reserve University
UM Econ431 Game 1 Game (ec) - University of Michigan
UM Econ431 Game 2 Game (on) - University of Michigan
Kenyon Game (f9) - Kenyon College
Williams College Econ 382 Game (jx) - Williams College
cwru B Game (cl) - Case Western Reserve University
Estrategia de Negocios PRUEBA Game (op) - Universidad ORT Uruguay
Estrategia de Negocios - O1 Game (o1) - Universidad ORT Uruguay
Estrategia de Negocios - O2 Game (o2) - Universidad ORT Uruguay
UM Teach Me Game (pp) - University of Michigan
cptest Game (cp) - Ross School of Business
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
hit-u 2zemi 2009 Game (2z) - Hitotsubashi University
MREACH Learns CSG Game (xx) - University of Michigan
MREACH Mentors Game (mr) - University of Michigan
MREACH Practice Game 1 Game (p1) - University of Michigan
MREACH Practice Game 2 Game (p2) - University of Michigan
MREACH Practice Game 3 Game (p3) - University of Michigan
MREACH Game 1 Game (m1) - University of Michigan
MREACH Game 2 Game (m2) - University of Michigan
MREACH Game 3 Game (m3) - University of Michigan
MREACH Mentors Game 2 Game (22) - University of Michigan
MREACH Mentors Game 3 Game (33) - University of Michigan
CP Game Game (d1) - Ross School of Business
MREACH Practice Game 4 Game (p4) - University of Michigan
MREACH Practice Game 5 Game (p5) - University of Michigan
MREACH Game 4 Game (m4) - University of Michigan
MREACH Game 5 Game (m5) - University of Michigan
SHSU Game (x1) - Sam Houston State University
SHSU Game (x2) - Sam Houston State University
SHSU Game (x3) - Sam Houston State University
SHSU Game (x4) - Sam Houston State University
SHSU Game (x5) - Sam Houston State University
SHSU Game (x6) - Sam Houston State University
SHSU Game (x7) - Sam Houston State University
SHSU Game (x8) - Sam Houston State University