Imitators and optimizers in Cournot oligopoly

DOI10.1016/j.jedc.2009.06.003zbMath1183.91065MaRDI QIDQ1042725

Burkhard C. Schipper

Publication date: 7 December 2009

Published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics \& Control (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://repec.dss.ucdavis.edu/files/kG51nPmKvSJ8NaceYhVSXSYi/05-37.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

learning; bounded rationality; Stackelberg; quasisubmodularity; profit maximization hypothesis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

91A10: Noncooperative games

91B26: Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models

91B69: Heterogeneous agent models

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