$title Oligopolistic Competition - Examples from MP (OLIGOMCP,SEQ=133) $onText Oligopolistic Competition - Examples from MP. Murphy, F H, Sherali, H D, and Soyster, A L, A mathematical programming approach for determining oligopolistic market equilibrium. Mathematical Programming 24 (1982), 92-106. Harker, P T, Oligopolistic equilibrium. Mathematical Programming 30 (1984), 105-111. Keywords: mixed complementarity problem, oligopoly, general equilibrium model, Nash equilibria $offText Set f 'firms' / f1*f5 /; * f (q) = c q + beta/(beta+1) l^(-1/beta) q^(beta+1)/beta * f'(q) = c + (q/l)^(1/beta) Table data(f,*) 'cost function data' c l beta f1 10 5 1.2 f2 8 5 1.1 f3 6 5 1.0 f4 4 5 0.9 f5 2 5 0.8; Parameter c(f) l(f) beta(f); c(f) = data(f,"c"); l(f) = data(f,"l"); beta(f) = data(f,"beta"); Positive Variable p 'price' q(f) 'supply'; Equation demand 'supply - demand balance' profit(f) 'Nash first order condition'; demand.. sum(f, q(f)) =g= 5000*p**(-1.1); profit(f).. c(f) + (q(f)/l(f))**(1/beta(f)) =g= p - q(f)*p**2.1/5500; Model oligop / demand.p, profit.q /; * initial guess: q.l(f) = 10; p.l = (5000/sum(f, q.l(f)))**(1/1.1); solve oligop using mcp;