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An Experimental Study of Adaptive Behavior in an Oligopolistic Market Game

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Rosemarie Nagel ()
Nicolaas J. Vriend

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We consider an oligopolistic market game, in which the players are competing firm in the same market of a homogeneous consumption good. The consumer side is represented by a fixed demand function. The firms decide how much to produce of a perishable consumption good, and they decide upon a number of information signals to be sent into the population in order to attract customers. Due to the minimal information provided, the players do not have a well--specified model of their environment. Our main objective is to characterize the adaptive behavior of the players in such a situation.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in its series Economics Working Papers with number 230.

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Keywords: Market game; oligopoly; adaptive behavior; learning; Leex;

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C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
C9 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments
D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty

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