Learning to collude tacitly on production levels by oligopolistic agents

Computational Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-78

  Kimbrough, Steven O ^a   Murphy, Frederic H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Cournot competition; Learning in games; Oligopoly; Production quantity decision making

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749179259     PISSN: 09277099     EISSN: 15729974     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10614-008-9150-6     Document Type: Article

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