Artikel

Generic regularity of differentiated product oligopolies

In oligopoly models with differentiated products, producers face a market demand function that reflects the preferences of consumers. However, typical assumptions on preferences place only weak restrictions on the shape of aggregate demand. This may result in profit functions that are not strictly quasiconcave, in best-reply correspondences that are not differentiable, and in equilibria that are not robust to perturbations. This paper establishes differentiability and robustness as a generic property: for an open, dense set of economies, best replies are differentiable in a neighborhood of equilibria, which is a precondition for comparative statics. All these economies have a finite number of equilibria in pure strategies.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Economic Theory ; ISSN: 1432-0479 ; Volume: 71 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 341-374 ; Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium: General
Exchange and Production Economies
Thema
Comparative statics
Imperfect competition
Cournot–Walras equilibrium
Regular production economy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Zierhut, Michael
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Springer
(wo)
Berlin, Heidelberg
(wann)
2020

DOI
doi:10.1007/s00199-020-01249-1
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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  • Zierhut, Michael
  • Springer

Entstanden

  • 2020

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