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_bVIV/O
100 _aVives, Xavier
245 0 _aOligopoly pricing: old ideas and new tools/
_cXavier Vives
260 _aCambridge:
_bMIT Press,
_c2001.
300 _axiv, 425 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
505 _aIdeas 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.
650 _aOligopolies
650 _aCompetition
650 _aGame theory
650 _aOligopolies--Mathematical models
650 _aCompetition--Mathematical models
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