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Controlling Chaos Through Local Knowledge

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Ahmad Naimzada () (Department of Quantitative Methods, University Bicocca, Milan, Italy)
Fabio Tramontana () (Università Politecnica delle Marche & Dipartimento di Economia e Metodi Quantitativi, Università di Urbino)

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Abstract

We propose an duopoly game where quantity-setting firms have incomplete information about the demand function. In each time step, they solve a profit maximization problem assuming a linear local approximation of the demand function. In particular, we construct an example using the well known duopoly Puu's model with isoelastic demand function and constant marginal costs. An explicit form of the dynamical system that describes the time evolution of the duopoly game with boundedly rational players is given. The main result is the global stability of the system.

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Paper provided by University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 0810.

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Length: 21 pages
Date of creation: 2008
Date of revision: 2008
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Keywords: Cournot duopoly; incomplete information; isoelastic demand function; time evolution; boundedly rational players.;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search, Learning, and Information
C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods and Programming - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
C62 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods and Programming - - - Existence and Stability Conditions of Equilibrium

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