Oligopoly games with Local Monopolistic Approximation

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 371-388

  Bischi, Gian Italo ^a   Naimzada, Ahmad K ^b   Sbragia, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Dynamical systems; Nash equilibrium; Oligopoly games; Stability; Subjective demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846607851     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2005.08.006     Document Type: Article

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