Profit loss in Cournot oligopolies

We compare the aggregate profit achieved at a Cournot equilibrium to the maximum possible, which would be obtained if the suppliers were to collude. We establish a lower bound on the profit of Cournot equilibria in terms of a scalar parameter that captures qualitative properties of the inverse deman...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tsitsiklis, John N, Xu, Yunjian
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110536
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2658-8239