In 2008, a former Intel engineer has been charged with stealing trade secrets worth $1 billion. Intel owns 80 percent of the worldwide market for microprocessors, AMD has the rest. Conducting R&D is very expensive so suppose that each of these firms can either steal R&D or develop their own R&D. If both firms develop their own R&D, economic profit will be $50 million each. If one company steals R&D, that firm earns $100 million in economic profit while the other firm earns $10 million. If both firms steal R&D, each firm breaks even. What is the outcome of this game?
A) Both firms will conduct R&D.
B) Both firms will steal R&D.
C) The outcome will be a dominant strategy equilibrium.
D) Only one firm will conduct R&D, but we cannot predict which firm will conduct R&D.
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