Imitators and optimizers in Cournot oligopoly

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1981-1990

  Schipper, Burkhard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Learning; Profit maximization hypothesis; Quasisubmodularity; Stackelberg

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349510117     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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