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Topological chaos in oligopoly competition

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Forthcoming
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>4/04/2025
<mark>Journal</mark>Economics Letters
Publication StatusAccepted/In press
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This letter demonstrates that oligopoly competition can exhibit topological chaos by applying Mitra's sufficient condition. To overcome the computational challenges arising from the lack of a simple closed-form expression for the modal point, we develop a resultant-based method. Our results show that, for a sufficiently large number of firms, there must exist parameter values that guarantee topological chaos.