On the Coalitional Stability of Monopoly Power in Differentiated Bertrand and Cournot Oligopolies
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Keywords
Bertrand; Cournot; Differentiated oligopoly; Cartel; Nash equilibrium; Core; Aggregate-monotonic core;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C71 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Cooperative Games
- D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2017-04-09 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-GTH-2017-04-09 (Game Theory)
- NEP-IND-2017-04-09 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-MIC-2017-04-09 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-ORE-2017-04-09 (Operations Research)
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