Coalition-proof Bertrand equilibria

Economic Theory

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 307-324

  Chowdhury, Prabal Roy ^a   Sengupta, Kunal ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bertrand oligopoly; Coalition proof Nash equilibrium; Folk theorem; Implementation

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142660148     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-003-0420-1     Document Type: Article

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