Oligopolistic Competition and the Optimal Provision of Products

DOI10.2307/2171770zbMath0836.90058OpenAlexW2033897659MaRDI QIDQ4859513

André de Palma, Simon P. Anderson, Yu. E. Nesterov

Publication date: 7 January 1996

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2171770

zbMATH Keywords

product differentiationoligopolistic competitionfree entryexistence of a price equilibriumlogconcavity of the consumer taste densityoliogopoly theorysecond-best social optimum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26)

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