• Title of article

    A new justification of monopolistic competition

  • Author/Authors

    Werner Güth، نويسنده , , Steffen Huck، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1997
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    177
  • To page
    182
  • Abstract
    This note offers an evolutionary justification for monopolistic competition: Sellers act on a symmetric heterogenous market, entertain beliefs about the market structure, and maximize conjectural profit functions. We show that conjectural profit functions neglecting strategic interdependence are (neutrally) evolutionarily stable.
  • Keywords
    Monopolistic competition , Evolutionary stability
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    1997
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    434440