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Noncooperative Oligopoly in Markets with a Continuum of Traders

Working paper
Author/s: 
Francesca Busetto, Giulio Codognato, and Sayantan Ghosal
Issue number: 
866
Publisher: 
University of Warwick
Year: 
2008
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In this paper, we study three prototypical models of noncooper- ative oligopoly in markets with a continuum of traders: the model of Cournot-Walras equilibrium of Codognato and Gabszewicz (1991), the model of Cournot-Nash equilibrium of Lloyd S. Shapley, and the model of Cournot-Walras equilibrium of Busetto et al. (2008). We argue that these models are all distinct and only the Shapley's model with a continuum of traders and atoms gives an endogenous explana- tion of the perfectly and imperfectly competitive behavior of agents in a one-stage setting. For this model, we prove a theorem of existence of a Cournot-Nash equilibrium.
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Cooperative Game Theory [2]

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[1] http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/workingpapers/2008/twerp_866.pdf [2] http://www.coalitiontheory.net/research-areas/cooperative-game-theory