Oligopoly Pricing

Old Ideas and New Tools

Xavier Vives (Professor of Economics and Finance, IESE Business School)

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English

MIT Press
27 July 2001

Microeconomics; Game theory

Series: The MIT Press

The ""oligopoly problem""-the question of how prices are formed when the market contains only a few competitors-is one of the more persistent problems in the history of economic thought. In this book Xavier Vives applies a modern game-theoretic approach to develop a theory of oligopoly pricing. Vives begins by relating classic contributions to the field-including those of Cournot, Bertrand, Edgeworth, Chamberlin, and Robinson-to modern game theory. In his discussion of basic game-theoretic tools and equilibrium, he pays particular attention to recent developments in the theory of supermodular games. The middle section of the book, an in-depth treatment of classic static models, provides specialized existence results, characterizations of equilibria, extensions to large markets, and an analysis of comparative statics with a view toward applied work. The final chapters examine commitment issues, entry, information transmission, and collusion using a variety of tools- two-stage games, the modeling of competition under asymmetric information and mechanism design theory, and the theory of repeated and dynamic games, including Markov perfect equilibrium and differential games.

By: Xavier Vives (Professor of Economics and Finance IESE Business School)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9780262720403
ISBN 10: 026272040X
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 442
Publication Date: 27 July 2001
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: Adult education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Xavier Vives is Director of the Institut d'An lisi Econ mica, Barcelona.

Reviews for Oligopoly Pricing: Old Ideas and New Tools

"""An exceedingly careful and thorough treatment of the theoretical stock of knowledge on imperfect competition by one of the best oligopoly theorists of his generation....Its comprehensive coverage and attention to theoretical foundations and to proving results rigorously and with utmost generality means that scholars, not just students, will benefit from reading it."" - Joseph Harrington, Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University"