Tacit collusion in differentiated cournot games
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Tacit Collusion in Differentiated Cournot Games
The relationship between product differentiation and tacit collusion has been analyzed by Deneckere (1983,1984). For Cournot games, he assumed that collusion is supported by the threat of reverting to the equilibrium of the one shot game. Recently, Abreu (1986) has, however, derived the optimal punishment schemes for a wide range of repeated games. The purpose of the present paper is to analyze...
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عنوان ژورنال: Economics Letters
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0165-1765
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1765(89)90206-1