Oligopoly Pricing
Old Ideas and New Tools
$103.31
- Paperback
442 pages
- Release Date
27 July 2001
Summary
The “oligopoly problem”-the question of how prices are formed when the market contains only a few competitors-is one of the more persistent problems in the history of economic thought. In this book Xavier Vives applies a modern game-theoretic approach to develop a theory of oligopoly pricing. Vives begins by relating classic contributions to the field-including those of Cournot, Bertrand, Edgeworth, Chamberlin, and Robinson-to modern game theory. In his discussion of basic game-theoretic tool…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262720403 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026272040X |
| Author: | Xavier Vives |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 442 |
| Release Date: | 27 July 2001 |
| Weight: | 590g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 25mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Critics Review
“An exceedingly careful and thorough treatment of the theoretical stock of knowledge on imperfect competition by one of the best oligopoly theorists of his generation….Its comprehensive coverage and attention to theoretical foundations and to proving results rigorously and with utmost generality means that scholars, not just students, will benefit from reading it.” - Joseph Harrington, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
About The Author
Xavier Vives
Xavier Vives is Director of the Institut d’An lisi Econ mica, Barcelona.
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