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General equilibrium concepts under imperfect competition: a Cournotion approach

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  • D'ASPREMONT, Claude

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    (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

  • DOS SANTOS, R.

    (BETA, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)

  • GÉRARD-VARET, Louis-André

    (GREQE, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Université d’Aix-Marseille)

Abstract

In a pure exchange economy we propose a general equilibrium concept under imperfect competition, the "Cournotian Monopolistic Competition Equilibrium", and compare it to the Cournot-Walras and the Monopolistic Competition concepts. The advantage of the proposed concept is to simplify the calculations attributed to strategic agents. Then we study the connexion of these concepts to a general concept of P-equilibrium which is extended to economies with production.

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Paper provided by Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) in its series CORE Discussion Papers with number 1992057.

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Date of creation: 01 Nov 1992
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