Equilibrium in Monopolistic Competition

A. Smithies

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1940, vol. 55, issue 1, 95-115

Abstract: The meaning of an imperfect market, 95. — Assumptions underlying the present analysis, 96. — I. The demand functions, 96. — II. Competitor's expectation of his rivais' behavior, 98. — His estimated demand function, 100. — III. Diagrammatic demonstration of attainment of equilibrium, 100. — IV. Equilibrium conditions for the general case, 103. — Conditions affecting the relative magnitudes of p1 and p2 in equilibrium: (1) differences in demand functions, 105; different methods of estimation, 106; (3) cost differences, 106. — V. Conditions under which equilibrium is stable and economically possible, 107. — Cases where the stability conditions are not fulfilled or where equilibrium is economically impossible, 114.

Date: 1940
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