StabilityanalysisinaCournotduopolywithmanagerialsalesdelegationandboundedrationality Fanti,LucianoandGori,Luca MunichPersonalRePEcArchive

Stability analysis in a Cournot duopoly with managerial sales delegation and bounded rationality

Fanti, Luciano and Gori, Luca

Department of Economics, University of Pisa, Department of Law and Economics "G.L.M. Casaregi", University of Genoa

30 September 2011

Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/33828/

MPRA Paper No. 33828, posted 02 Oct 2011 02:54 UTC

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