TY - BOOK AU - Vives, Xavier TI - Oligopoly pricing: old ideas and new tools SN - 9780262220606 U1 - 338.523 PY - 2001/// CY - Cambridge PB - MIT Press KW - Oligopolies KW - Competition KW - Game theory KW - Oligopolies--Mathematical models KW - Competition--Mathematical models N1 - Ideas of the Founding Fathers: Oligopoly Theory and Modern Game Theory -- Game Theory Tools -- Games in Normal Form and Nash Equilibrium -- Supermodular Games and Lattice Programming -- Lattices and Tarski's Theorem -- Monotonicity of Optimal Solutions, Lattice Programming, and Complementarity -- Supermodular Games -- Existence Results for Quasi-increasing and Decreasing Best Replies -- Quasi-increasing Best Replies in Symmetric Games -- Decreasing Best Replies in n-Player Games -- Mixed Strategies -- Uniqueness -- Stability -- Dominance Solvability and Rationalizability -- Tatonnement Stability -- Incomplete Information and Bayesian Nash Equilibrium -- Lattice Programming under Uncertainty -- Information Structures and Signals -- Bayesian Equilibrium -- Foundations of Partial Equilibrium Analysis -- A Canonical Partial Equilibrium Model -- Small Expenditure Shares and Small Income Effects -- Consumer Surplus Analysis -- Quantity Competition: The Cournot Model -- The Model and Existence of Equilibrium -- Characterization of Smooth Cournot Games -- Comparative Statics and Entry -- Comparative Statics -- Entry -- Large Markets -- Price Competition: The Models of Bertrand and Edgeworth -- Bertrand Competition -- Bertrand-Edgeworth Competition -- Rationing Rules and Contingent Demand -- Equilibria: The Existence Problem -- Mixed Strategies -- Price Competition and the Cournot Model -- Large Bertrand-Edgeworth Markets -- Concluding Remark: The Rationale for Mixed Strategies -- Product Differentiation -- Demand Systems ER -