A STOCHASTIC CARTEL MARKET PROCESS

Armin Haas
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Armin Haas: der Universitaet Karlsruhe

No 224, Computing in Economics and Finance 2000 from Society for Computational Economics

Abstract: A dynamic version of discrete choice theory is presented in order to enable the explicit analysis of the interaction between the micro- and the macro-level of social systems. Suppliers in a cartel market face a social dilemma. They are modelled as boundedly rational decision makers with limited foresight.A stimulus-response mechanism leads to an ergodic, time-discrete Markov-chain with a discrete state space. The resulting market dynamics exhibits a specific time-pattern of cartelisation and de-cartelisation. Most of the time, a cartel which significantly rations output is in existence. This happens though there is a permanent temptation to free ride.

Date: 2000-07-05
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