几乎无信息下的合谋

Collusion with (almost) no information

RAND Journal of Economics · 2007
被引 31
人大 AFT50ABS 4

中文导读

研究无限重复伯特兰博弈中,企业仅凭私人成本冲击和是否赢得消费者的信息,能否实现近似最优利润的合谋均衡,证明在足够耐心下存在这样的均衡。

Abstract

We analyze noncooperative collusion in an infinitely repeated Bertrand game, where each of the n firms receives a privately observed, i.i.d. cost shock in each period and firms only (and privately) observe whether they have “won” the unit mass of consumers. No other information is available and no communication is allowed. We prove that there exist equilibria in private strategies approximating first‐best profits when firms are sufficiently patient. In particular, productive efficiency obtains in the limit.

默契合谋不完全信息伯川德博弈私人策略