The Learning Curve, Market Dominance, and Predatory Pricing

DOI10.2307/2951509zbMath0812.90032MaRDI QIDQ4316536

Michael H. Riordan, Luís M. B. Cabral

Publication date: 15 May 1995

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2951509

zbMATH Keywords

dynamic oligopoly; learning curve; predatory pricing; price-setting, differentiated duopoly; unique and symmetric Markov perfect equilibrium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

91E40: Memory and learning in psychology

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