Firms` Strategic Decisions: Theoretical and Empirical Findings

Author(s): Daniel Cracau

DOI: 10.2174/9781681080383115010007

Strategic Price and Quantity Choices

Pp: 55-76 (22)

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Abstract

SHS investigation development is considered from the geographical and historical viewpoint. 3 stages are described. Within Stage 1 the work was carried out in the Department of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka where the scientific discovery had been made. At Stage 2 the interest to SHS arose in different cities and towns of the former USSR. Within Stage 3 SHS entered the international scene. Now SHS processes and products are being studied in more than 50 countries.

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In this chapter, I present a systematic overview of the market outcomes for classical oligopoly games. This study contains six games: pure quantity competition, pure price competition as well as price and quantity competition, each with simultaneous and sequential moves. I present equilibrium prices, quantities and profits for each game. In particular, I present the mixed strategy equilibrium of the simultaneous price and quantity competition. This equilibrium was found by Gertner (1986), but remained unrecognized so far. From a comparison of market outcomes, I can classify situations where the choice of decision variable(s) and timing gives strategic advantages.

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