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Strategic interactions on differentiated markets and public policies

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In economy, the competition analysis among firms have a significance importance because of the complexity of some elements. This thesis examines the strategic interactions on differentiated markets in general equilibrium while proposing the public policies to reduce the distortions due to the imperfect behaviors. This thesis takes into account the differentiation of products in order to obtain the new conclusions and/or to extend those existing. We thus pursues two objectives. Fisrt, the construction of a model of imperfect competition on differentiated markets in a general equilibrium framework. Second, the evaluation of the consequences of the model in terms of economic policies. At beginning, we use literature review to tackle successively price mechanisms in strategic market games, product differentiation concepts and game theory models dealing with strategic interactions in order to model imperfect behaviors. This led in chapter 2 to the symmetric Cournot-Walras equilibrium concept on differentiated markets where we assign to each economic agent a finite vector of differentiation coefficients which expresses the agent's love for diversity. Following the differentiation model, chapter 3 offers tax policy mechanisms to control losses due to perfect behavior of firms. From the analysis, it appears that some examples illustrate that the differentiation model admits a trivial equilibrium which is nice and the price and allocations of symmetrical Cournot-Walras equilibrium on differentiated product, under certain conditions, converge towards the Walrasian ones.