Zanetti, Giovanni; Boffa, Federico - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 61 (2008) 2-3, pp. 613-633
The paper discusses the evolution of the oligopoly theory, starting from Augustin Cournot’s seminal contribution until the most recent developments that extensively exploit the sophisticated tools derived from game theory and mechanism design. We then show how the oligopoly models have been...