Cournot Competition in Networked Markets

Kostas Bimpikis
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Kostas Bimpikis
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Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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Shayan Ehsani
Shayan Ehsani
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Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
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Rahmi İlkılıç
Rahmi İlkılıç
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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Kostas Bimpikis

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Kostas Bimpikis

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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5289-0397

Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

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Shayan Ehsani

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Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

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Rahmi İlkılıç

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

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Published Online:19 Feb 2019https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2018.3061

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Received:August 13, 2015
Accepted:January 07, 2018
Published Online:February 19, 2019

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