Journal
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Volume 57, Issue 5, Pages 1220-1235Publisher
INFORMS
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1080.0686
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- United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [GR/S90850/01]
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We study an oligopoly consisting of M leaders and N followers that supply a homogeneous product ( or service) noncooperatively. Leaders choose their supply levels first, knowing the demand function only in distribution. Followers make their decisions after observing the leader supply levels and the realized demand function. We term the resulting equilibrium a stochastic multiple-leader Stackelberg-Nash-Cournot (SMS) equilibrium. We show the existence and uniqueness of SMS equilibrium under mild assumptions. We also propose a computational approach to find the equilibrium based on the sample average approximation method and analyze its rate of convergence. Finally, we apply this framework to model competition in the telecommunication industry.
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