Learning cycles in Bertrand competition with differentiated commodities and competing learning rules

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2562-2581

  Anufriev, Mikhail ^a   Kopányi, Dávid ^b,c   Tuinstra, Jan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bertrand competition; Endogenous switching; Gradient learning; Heterogeneous agents; Least squares learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887610334     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2013.06.010     Document Type: Article

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