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This note deals with the classic Cournot (1838) model of oligopolistic competition, thoroughly reviewed in Tirole (1988). Under discussion is an industry composed of finitely many firms i ∈ I, all producing the same homogeneous good for one competitive market. Firm i furnishes the quantity qi ≥ 0 at cost ci(qi ), thus obtaining the profit
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Flåm, S.D. (1993). Oligopolistic Competition; from Stability to Chaos. In: Gori, F., Geronazzo, L., Galeotti, M. (eds) Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Social Sciences. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 399. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58031-4_11
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