So one case to think about is what if the other firm, you're Coke, what if Pepsi is pricing below cost?
一种情况是如果另一家公司,假如说你是可口可乐,如果百事可乐定价低于成本怎么办
Okay, coke got the most votes here which is interesting, and in fact Coca-Cola is an international giant of a company.
好,可口可乐得票最多,有意思,事实上,可口可乐是一家大型跨国公司
If Coke is the low price it sells this amount and its profits are basically given by this equation.
如果可口可乐价格低那它就销售这个销量,利润基本上就是由这个公式决定
This was eventually taken out, and actually just for your interest, there was no overlap between the time when cocaine was in Coca Cola and lithium was in 7-Up, so there was a few years difference between those two times, but it's amazing to think about what does go into processed foods.
锂最终被去掉了,如果你感兴趣的话,可口可乐中含有可卡因,与七喜中含锂的时代,并没有交集,它们之间还差了几年,但是想一想加工食品里,会加入什么东西还是很令人吃惊的。
We're just producing Coca-Cola and Pepsi and for want of a better world, spewing it out into the market.
我们只是生产可口可乐和百事可乐,只是投入市场造福百姓而已
So Patrick, our manager of Pepsi believes that Coca-Cola is going to produce this quantity and he's agreed to produce this quantity.
百事的经理帕特里克认为可口可乐,会按照协议产量来生产,他也会这么做
Now be honest, how many of you in a blind taste test can taste the difference between ordinary Coke and ordinary Pepsi?
老老实实,你们谁能在不知道的情况下尝出,可口可乐和百事可乐的不同
They make it like that, but instead of water or whatever, they put Coca-Cola into it?
他们像往常一样和面团,只不过用可口可乐取代了水
Let me take an example that I understand better than I understand Coke and Pepsi.
让我举一个,我比可口可乐和百事可乐了解更多的例子
There's also a part of the payoffs that's analogous to forcing me to drink Bud Light or forcing the forcing the Pepsi drinkers to drink Coca-Cola.
还有一部分类似于,强迫我喝百威淡啤酒或者,强迫喜欢喝百事的人去喝可口可乐
The only rider on that being, if they're producing Coca-Cola and you have any kind of concern for your teeth, maybe you shouldn't produce so much anyway.
如果可口可乐是唯一的生产者,并且你狠关心牙齿健康的话,或许你就不应该生产这么多产品了
We see what the environment has become and here you see something where there's deep fried Twinkies, deep fried candy bars, deep fried onions, and deep fried Coca-Cola.
我们看到饮食环境变成了什么样,你能看到各种油炸食品,油炸夹馅面包,油炸糖果条,油炸洋葱,以及油炸可口可乐
Suppose the other guy didn't exist, Suppose Pepsi didn't exist, so Coke has the whole market, then we would solve out this problem.
假设对手不存在,假设百事可乐不存在,那么可口可乐占领整个市场,然后我们就可以解决这个问题
in whatever it is you guys imagine makes Coke and Pepsi different, it could be that thing.
你们所认为的可口可乐和百事可乐的不同,它可以是那个不同
Now, Mr. Coca-Cola guy knows Patrick pretty well, they've been in the same industry for a while and Mr. Coca-Cola guy, whose name is?
可口可乐的人很了解帕特里克,他们做同行有段时间了,可口可乐的经理叫什么来着
So Coca-Cola and Poland Spring could just agree to produce half the quantity of water each.
假如可口可乐和波兰泉达成默契了,同意各产垄断产量的一半
It's going to be /2 in the case where Coke and Pepsi cost exactly the same.
当可口可乐和百事可乐的价格一样时,销量将是/2
Okay, so Patrick's producing here but what about Mr. Coca-Cola guy?
帕特里克是这么制定产量的,那可口可乐会怎么做呢
So these are Coke and Pepsi, that will confuse me less.
那就可口可乐和百事可乐吧,这会更容易理解
If Pepsi is the low price then Coke sells nothing.
如果百事的价格低则可口可乐就卖不出去
So this is the total quantity of Coke plus Pepsi.
也就是可口可乐和百事可乐的总产量
Unilever is one, and then the final one is Coca-Cola.
联合利华,最后一个是可口可乐
How many would have a strict preference for Coke?
谁会倾向选择可口可乐
They're two water companies, so they're Poland Spring and Coca-Cola I guess these days, sign this agreement saying that each one's going to produce half monopoly quantity and what's going to go wrong with that agreement?
有两家瓶装水公司,比如说波兰泉和可口可乐,他们签署了协议规定,每家都只生产垄断产量的一半,这个协议有什么问题吗
when I talked on the first day of class about my own boyhood experience when a Coca-Cola was an eight ounce glass or a Pepsi was an eight ounce bottle rather, that was a serving.
上课第一天,我讲了我少年时代的经历,那时可口可乐装在八盎司的玻璃瓶里,百事可乐也一样,那是一餐份量
How many would say Coca-Cola?
有多少人认为是可口可乐
When I was a boy the eight ounce Coke was the default serving, and when I was a child when it was time to have a Coke or a Pepsi you had eight ounces and the event was over.
当我还是个小男孩的时候,可口可乐,或是百事可乐都是八盎司装的,而且最多就只能喝一瓶
So if Pepsi is the low price drink in the market then no Coke is sold at all.
如果在市场上百事可乐的价格较低,可口可乐就卖不出去
We're Coca-Cola and Pepsi, so we really don't want to have to bring the mafia in, Although maybe we do, I don't know.
我们是可口可乐和百事可乐公司,我们都不想将黑手党卷进来,可能也希望他们介入吧,谁知道呢
So the products we mentioned last time were Coke and Pepsi, but you could think of other products that are pretty much identical.
上次举例的产品是可口可乐和百事可乐,但你们可以把它想象成其他,同样的产品
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