Oligopoly Pricing by Xavier Vives - ISBN: 9780262720403
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Xavier Vives applies a modern game-theoretic approach to develop a theory of oligopoly pricing.

Oligopoly Pricing

Old Ideas and New Tools

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    442 pages

  • Release Date

    27 July 2001

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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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