Learning and strategic pricing

Econometrica

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1125-1149

  Bergemaimn, Dirk ^a   Välimäki, Juuso ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Dynamic oligopoly; Experimentation; Infinite stochastic game; Learning; Markov perfect equilibrium; Multi armed bandit

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; ROBUSTNESS; STOCHASTIC GAME;

DECISION THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 0030352286     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2171959     Document Type: Article

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