In this paper, we study the pricing of Internet services under monopoly and duopoly environments using a game-theoretic model in which a service provider and users all try to maximize their payoffs. First, we compare a few popular pricing schemes, including flat, volume-based, two-part and nonlinear tariffs with respect to revenue, social welfare and user surplus. We perform a sensitivity study...

In this paper, a discrete-time dynamic duopoly model, with nonlinear demand and cost functions, is established. The properties of existence local stability equilibrium points have been verified analyzed. conditions are also given the help Jury criterion. With changing values parameters, system shows some new interesting phenomena in terms to multistability, such as V-shaped stable structures (a...

Adopting an evolutionary approach, we explain the conjectural variations Þrms may hold in duopoly. Given conjectures, Þrms play the market game rationally. Success in the market game determines Þtness in the evolutionary game. We show that the unique conjectures which are evolutionarily stable are consistent in that they anticipate rivals’ behavior correctly.

A formal game-theoretic model of an intertwined supply network, in full and simplified versions, is proposed. Conditions for the sustainable development active system are presented general form then specified to class networks. As illustration, a concise example dynamic Cournot duopoly detailed Social Private Interests Coordination Engines (SPICE-model) marketing network considered analytically...

The aim of the paper is to study the Bertrand duopoly example in the quantum domain. We use two ways to write the game in terms of quantum theory. The first one adapts the Li-Du-Massar scheme for the Cournot duopoly. The second one is a simplified model that exploits a two qubit entangled state. In both cases we focus on finding Nash equilibria in the resulting games.

The phenomenon of synchronization of a two-dimensional discrete dynamical system is studied for the model of an economic duopoly game, whose time evolution is obtained by the iteration of a noninvertible map of the plane. In the case of identical players the map has a symmetry property that implies the invariance of the diagonal x1ˆx2, so that synchronized dynamics is possible. The basic questi...

Cooperative advertising is an incentive offered by a manufacturer to influence retailers’ promotional decisions. We study a dynamic durable goods duopoly with a manufacturer and two independent and competing retailers. The manufacturer as a Stackelberg leader announces his wholesale prices and his shares of retailers’ advertising costs, and the retailers in response play a Nash differential gam...

We investigate a mixed duopoly market where a welfare−maximizing public firm competes against a profit−maximizing private firm, using a linear−city location−then−price model with linear transportation costs. We find that, compared with the results in the purely private duopoly case discussed by Hotelling (1929) and d' Aspremont, Gabszewicz, and Thisse (1979), the condition under which price equ...