Formulation and analysis of horizontal mergers among oligopolistic firms with insights into the merger paradox: A supply chain network perspective

DOI10.1007/s10287-009-0095-6zbMath1197.91125OpenAlexW2166727405MaRDI QIDQ601966

Anna Nagurney

Publication date: 29 October 2010

Published in: Computational Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10287-009-0095-6

zbMATH Keywords

game theoryvariational inequalitiesNash equilibriasupply chainshorizontal mergersmerger paradoxnetwork economicsoligopolies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Complementarity and equilibrium problems and variational inequalities (finite dimensions) (aspects of mathematical programming) (90C33) Production theory, theory of the firm (91B38) Special types of economic markets (including Cournot, Bertrand) (91B54)

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