This paper incorporates imperfect divisibility of money in a price game where a given number of identical firms produce a homogeneous product at constant unit cost up to capacity. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a pure strategy equilibrium. Unlike in the continuous action space case, with discrete pricing there may be a range of symmetric pure strategy equilibria - which we fully characterize - a range which may or may not include the competitive price. Also, we determine the maximum number of such equilibria when competitive pricing is itself an equilibrium. The
DE FRANCESCO, M.A. (2008). Existence of pure strategy equilibrium in Bertrand-Edgeworth games with imperfect divisibility of money. ECONOMICS BULLETIN, 12(29), 1-11.
Existence of pure strategy equilibrium in Bertrand-Edgeworth games with imperfect divisibility of money
DE FRANCESCO, MASSIMO ALFIERO
2008-01-01
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This paper incorporates imperfect divisibility of money in a price game where a given number of identical firms produce a homogeneous product at constant unit cost up to capacity. We find necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a pure strategy equilibrium. Unlike in the continuous action space case, with discrete pricing there may be a range of symmetric pure strategy equilibria - which we fully characterize - a range which may or may not include the competitive price. Also, we determine the maximum number of such equilibria when competitive pricing is itself an equilibrium. TheFile | Dimensione | Formato | |
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