Stochastic evolutionary cartel formation

This paper employs the evolutionary dynamics driven by the Moran process (a special birth-death process) to investigate endogenous cartel formation from the perspective of stochastic evolution of the underlying industry. A Prisoner’s Dilemma game is derived based on the Cournot competition between a...

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Main Authors: Darong DAI, Kunrong SHEN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: General Association of Economists from Romania 2014-01-01
Series:Theoretical and Applied Economics
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Online Access: http://store.ectap.ro/articole/939.pdf