Online-Offline Competition with Heterogeneous Consumers: An Example for No Existence of Pure Strategy Nash Equilibrium
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online versus offline, price competition, salop model, heterogeneous consumers, existence of equilibrium
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2023-01-25
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Ford, W., Han, H., & Zheng, J. (2023). Online-Offline Competition with Heterogeneous Consumers: An Example for No Existence of Pure Strategy Nash Equilibrium. Contributions to Game Theory and Management, 15, 41–50. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu31.2022.04
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