Bertrand and Cournot oligopolies when rivals' costs are unknown

摘要

We study Bertrand and Cournot oligopoly models with incomplete information about rivals' costs, where the uncertainty is given by a uniform distribution. We compute the BayesianNash equilibrium of both games, the ex-ante expected profits and the ex-post profits of each firm. We see that, in the price competition, even though only one firm produces in equilibrium, all firms have a positive ex-ante expected profit.