1985
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L'Actualité économique ; vol. 61 no. 4 (1985)
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Marcel Boyer et al., « La convergence d’équilibres stratégiques en prix-quantités vers l’équilibre concurrentiel », L'Actualité économique, ID : 10.7202/601345ar
In this article, we study the convergence of a sequence of strategic equilibria in a model with a hierarchy of leaders and followers and where firms express their strategy in terms of both prices and quantity. In the duopoly case with an homogenous product, such a strategy set leads to equilibria with two prices and endogenous rationing; moreover, followership is the preferred position. We generalize here the model to an arbitrary number of firms organized in a hierarchy. We show that, as the number of firms increases, the sequence of equilibria converges to a "quasi-competitive" equilibrium: total production converges to the competitive production, the price chosen by any firm of a given rank goes to the competitive price and the relative production of the firms whose selling price is ε-above the competitive price goes to zero for all positive ε. However the distributions of both production and profits (total profits going to zero) remains strongly unequal.