Efficiency loss in a Cournot oligopoly with convex market demand

We consider a Cournot oligopoly model where multiple suppliers (oligopolists) compete by choosing quantities. We compare the social welfare achieved at a Cournot equilibrium to the maximum possible, for the case where the inverse market demand function is convex. We establish a lower bound on the ef...

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Main Authors: Tsitsiklis, John N. (Author), Xu, Yunjian (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV, 2020-12-22T20:49:21Z.
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