A Dynamic Network Oligopoly Model with Transportation Costs, Product Differentiation, and Quality Competition

Computational Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 201-229

  Nagurney, Anna ^a,b   Li, Dong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Game theory; Networks; Oligopolies; Product differentiation; Product quality; Projected dynamical systems; Variational inequalities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904261591     PISSN: 09277099     EISSN: 15729974     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10614-013-9387-6     Document Type: Article

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