Before revision: To clarify what is meant by 'reinforce' or 'offset', it is helpful to consider a situation in which the players all have similar choices to make, as in the paper of Bulow et al., where all the players are imperfectly competitive firms which are each choosing how much to produce.
After revision: To see what is meant by 'reinforce' or 'offset', it is helpful to consider a situation in which the players all have similar choices to make, as in the paper of Bulow et al., where all the players are imperfectly competitive firms that must each decideall how much to produce.