Games of Mixed Oligopoly

Dear Colleagues,

There is an emerging literature on the application of game theory to the development of mixed oligopoly models. In a mixed oligopoly, private and public firms coexist and compete in a single market. Such markets are common in many economies, especially those that are transitioning from command to greater economic freedom. Rather than committing to a fully free market, many countries have retained a public enterprise to achieve certain public goals, such as the elimination of market failure due to imperfect competition. To model such markets requires an objective function of the public firm. Yet, public authorities rarely, if ever, explicitly state their goals. Thus, one purpose of this Special Issue is to attract papers that show how Nash (including sub-game perfect Nash) equilibria and the behavior of private firms are affected by the different objective functions of the public enterprise. Such outcomes are likely to be sensitive to the mode of competition (i.e., output versus price competition) and the timing of play, both of which could be considered as exogenous or endogenously determined within a game. The ultimate goal would be to determine which set of conditions maximizes social welfare and to determine the sensitivity of the results to changes in firm goals, the mode of competition, and the timing of play. The series might include a survey paper and several original studies.

Prof. Dr. Victor J. Tremblay
Prof. Dr. Chi-Chur Chao
Guest Editors

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• mixed oligopoly
• public enterprises
• firm objectives
• timing of interaction
• mode of competition
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• Bertrand game
• Cournot-Bertrand game
• Stackelberg game