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There are 4 firms: A, B, C and F. They want to form a joint venture (JV). The returns of the JV are as follows:
- If all the firms form a JV, the JV earns $100m
- The JV of A, B and C earns $100m
- The JV of A, B and F earns $80m
- The JV of A, C and F earns $70m
- The JV of B, C and F earns $100m
- The JV of A and B earns $80m
- The JV of A and C earns $70m
- The JV of A and F earns $30m
- The JV of B and C earns $40m
- The JV of B and F earns $80m
- The JV of C and F earns $70m
- Anyone not in a JV earns $15m
The profit of a JV must be split (not necessarily evenly) among the participating firms. Assume that firms only care about their own returns, and a firm cannot be part of more than one JV. What do you predict will happen? Who will form JV, and who will get how much of the returns?
So in all there are 11 scenarios to form a JV. We start eliminating the scenarios where other scenarios are more beneficial then the eliminated scenario.