Development of evolutionarily stable firm strategies on market

• Main Author: Віталій Миколайович Кобець
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: PC Technology Center 2014-12-01
• Series: Tehnologìčnij Audit ta Rezervi Virobnictva
• Subjects: evolutionary strategy; social preferences; reciprocity; punitive behavior; duopoly
• Online Access: http://journals.uran.ua/tarp/article/view/30337
• ISSN: 2226-3780; 2312-8372

The formation of evolutionary stable strategies of companies to assess the level of competition in the market between them is examined in the article. The aim of the article is identification of evolutionarily stable strategies of firms in experimental economics with regard to social preferences among firms. To describe the competition between firms the Cournot model is used based on social preferences firms: selfish, reciprocal or punitive. Results of competition are modeled experimentally based on adaptive behavior of firms in a special software module. Based on the statistical data on the two firms using econometric methods it is defined the social preferences of firms to assess the level of competition between them. Evolutionary modeling of competition between firms allows estimating the dynamics of social preferences, depending on the marginal costs of firms. The developed econometric model allows determining the evolutionary stable strategies of firms and predicting the level of competition between them for a level of social preferences firms and statistical information about their income. Antimonopoly Committee proposes to use econometric modeling and experimental evaluation of social preferences of firms to predict the direction of competition between firms. The research results can be used to identify additional indexes concentration of firms in the economy of sector markets, taking into account the evolutionary adaptation strategies of firms to competition.