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Advertising strategies in a differential game with negative competitor’s interference. (English) Zbl 1173.91019

This paper deals with a duopolistic industry, where the current sales of each firm is proportional to its goodwill stock. The authors analyze a duopoly, where each player’s advertising effort has the dual role of influencing positively his own goodwill and negatively the competitor’s one, and consider the circumstances under which a firm finds it optimal to remain in or exit the industry. Describing this model as a differential game with controls of advertising strategies, they investigate optimal controls for players and Nash equilibrium. Some examples are presented.

MSC:

91A23 Differential games (aspects of game theory)
91B26 Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models
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