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Simulating the Ecology of Oligopoly Games with Genetic Algorithms

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  • Chih-Chi Ni

    (National Chengchi University)

  • Shu-Heng Chen

    (National Chengchi University)

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This paper extends the N -person IPD game into a more interesting one in economics: the oligopoly game. Due to its dynamics of market share, the oligopoly game is more complicated and need not be exactly an N -person IPD game. Using genetic algorithms, we simulate oligopoly games under various settings. It is found that, even in the case of the three-oligopolist (three-player) game, collusive pricing (cooperation) is not the most dominating result.

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  • Chih-Chi Ni & Shu-Heng Chen, 1999. "Simulating the Ecology of Oligopoly Games with Genetic Algorithms," Computing in Economics and Finance 1999 1012, Society for Computational Economics.
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