Dynamic Models of Oligopoly

by D. Fudenberg, J. Tirole

Overview

In October 2014, Jean Tirole capped a long career by scooping the Nobel Prize for Economic Science. Tirole’s long career saw him make major contributions to industrial organization, game theory and financial theory and Dynamic Models of Oligopoly, co-authored with this long term collaborator Drew Fudenberg, was where it all began back in 1986. Originally published by Harwood Academic Publishers, the book paints a picture of an economy as an ever evolving and far from static system and stands as a document to the more nuanced and realistic approach to economic modelling which Tirole did so much to foster.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415771238
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/01/2006
Series:	Fundamentals of Pure and Applied Economics
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jean Tirole is chairman of the board of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation at the Toulouse School of Economics, and scientific director of the Industrial Economics Institute (IDEI) in Toulouse. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economic Science in 2014.

Table of Contents

Part 1 †This survey is the outgrowth of lectures we gave at the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences (IMSSS), Stanford University, in the summer of 1983. Our research was supported by National Science Foundation grants SES 81–04769 and SES 82–01373 at the IMSSS, and by SES 82–07925 at the University of California, Berkeley. The authors would like to thank John Geanakoplos, David Kreps, Eric Maskin, John Roberts, Jose Scheinkman and Robert Wilson for helpful conversations, and Mordecai Kurz for encouraging us to undertake this project., Drew Fudenberg, Jean Tirole; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Competition in Tangible Variables; Chapter 3 Preemption; Chapter 4 Short-Run Commitment, Fixed Costs, and Natural Monopolies; Chapter 5 Price Wars and Tacit Collusion; Chapter 6 Investing in Disinformation;