Two-Population Evolutionary Oligopoly with Partial Cooperation and Partial Hostility

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10614-023-10536-7" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10614-023-10536-7</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10614-023-10536-7" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10614-023-10536-7</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Two-Population Evolutionary Oligopoly with Partial Cooperation and Partial Hostility

Original language description

In this paper, we reconsider the model in Bischi and Lamantia (J Econ Interact Coord 17:3-27, 2022) and reformulate it in a two-population context. There, the Cournot duopoly market examined is in equilibrium (Cournot-Nash-equilibrium quantities are produced) conditionally to the players&apos; (heterogeneous) attitudes toward cooperation. To accommodate players&apos; attitudes, their objective functions partly include the opponent&apos;s profit, resulting in greater (partial) cooperation or hostility toward the opponent than in the standard duopoly setting. An evolutionary selection mechanism determines the survival of cooperative or competitive strategies in the duopoly. The game is symmetric and Bischi and Lamantia (J Econ Interact Coord 17:3-27, 2022) assumes that the two players involved start the game by choosing the same strategic profile. In this way, the full-fledged two-population game simplifies in a one-dimensional map. In this paper, we relax this assumption. On one hand, this approach allows us to investigate entirely the dynamics of the model and the evolutionary stability of the Nash equilibria of the static game that is implicit in the evolutionary setup. In fact, the model with only one population partially represents the system dynamics occurring in an invariant subset of the phase space. As a remarkable result, this extension shows that the steady state of the evolutionary model where all players are cooperative can be an attractor, although only in the weak sense, even when it is not a Nash equilibrium. This occurs when firms have a very high propensity to change strategies to the one that performs better. On the other hand, this approach allows us to accommodate players&apos; heterogeneity (non-symmetric version of the game), whose analysis confirms the main insights attained in the homogeneous setting.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA23-06282S" target="_blank" >GA23-06282S: Evolutionary economic dynamics with finite populations: Modeling and applications</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Computational Economics

ISSN

0927-7099

e-ISSN

1572-9974

Volume of the periodical

65

Issue of the periodical within the volume

February

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

32

Pages from-to

763-794

UT code for WoS article

001139002200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85181876666