Tolling, collusion and equilibrium problems with equilibrium constraints

European Transport - Trasporti Europei

Volumn , Issue 44, 2010, Pages 3-22

  Koh, Andrew ^a   Shepherd, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collusion; Competition; EPEC; Nash equilibrium; Sequential linear complementarity programming (SLCP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960575917     PISSN: 18253997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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