Bertrand competition with asymmetric costs: Experimental evidence

被引:13
作者
Boone, Jan [3 ]
Aylwin, Maria Jose Larrain
Mueller, Wieland [4 ]
Chaudhuri, Amrita Ray [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Winnipeg, CentER, TILEC, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9, Canada
[2] Univ Winnipeg, Dept Econ, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9, Canada
[3] Tilburg Univ, Dept Econ, TILEC, ENCORE,CEPR,CPB,CentER, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands
[4] Univ Vienna, Dept Econ, TILEC, ENCORE,VCEE,CentER, A-1210 Vienna, Austria
关键词
Bertrand competition; Asymmetric costs; Experiment; INFORMATION; AUCTIONS;
D O I
10.1016/j.econlet.2012.04.098
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We provide supporting evidence from the laboratory for the Nash predictions of the homogeneous-good Bertrand model under asymmetric constant unit costs. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:134 / 137
页数:4
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