Investing to survive in a duopoly model

We present deterministic dynamics on the production costs of Cournot competitions, based on perfect Nash equilibria of nonlinear R&D investment strategies to reduce the production costs of the firms at every period of the game. We analyse the effects that the R&D investment strategies can ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pinto, Alberto A. (author)
Other Authors: Oliveira, Bruno M. P. M. (author), Ferreira, Fernanda A. (author), Ferreira, Miguel (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:eng
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/7360
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:recipp.ipp.pt:10400.22/7360
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Summary:We present deterministic dynamics on the production costs of Cournot competitions, based on perfect Nash equilibria of nonlinear R&D investment strategies to reduce the production costs of the firms at every period of the game. We analyse the effects that the R&D investment strategies can have in the profits of the firms along the time. We show that small changes in the initial production costs or small changes in the parameters that determine the efficiency of the R&D programs or of the firms can produce strong economic effects in the long run of the profits of the firms.