Natural Oligopolies

DOI10.2307/1912285zbMath0521.90026OpenAlexW4250117622MaRDI QIDQ3670875

Avner Shaked, John Sutton

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1912285

zbMATH Keywords

market structureprice competitiondifferent qualitiesone goodmaximal coexistence numbernoncooperative price equilibrium

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Microeconomic theory (price theory and economic markets) (91B24)

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