Under Stackelberg competition, firms compete over quantities of production. But unlike Cournot competition, the firms do not make these decisions simultaneously. Instead, a leading firm begins by choosing its quantity. Then a following firm sees that opposing quantity and chooses its own.
This lecture goes through the technical details of solving for the equilibrium production of a duopoly under Stackelberg competition.
0:00 Stackelberg Model Setup
1:49 Solution Strategy
4:06 Firm 2's Best Response
5:36 Firm 1's Equilibrium Production
7:50 Firm 2's Equilibrium Production
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