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consensus value is discussed.Finally, two applications of the consensus value are given: one is for oligopoly games in partition …
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This paper studies welfare effects of uniform production subsidies in oligopoly markets, comparing cases of asymmetric …
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theories of oligopoly predict. …
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The paper proposes a theory of the anti-competitive effects of debt finance based on the interaction between capital … that reduce conflicts with debtholders - such as hiring managers with valuable reputations or "conservative" incentives …
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This paper provides an empirical examination of third-degree price discrimination in the Swedish newspaper industry. The results show that price discrimination is more prevalent in competitive markets and among newspapers with low market shares. This supports predictions from recent theoretical...
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This paper examines if international trade can reduce total welfare in an international oligopoly with differentiated …
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are paid more than once or are deferred, stock-related compensation packages are strong incentives for managers to support … discounts them on stock prices, reducing managers' short-run gains from any deviation. When deferred, stock-related incentives … may remove all managers' short-run gains from deviation making collusion supportable at any discount factor. The results …
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This paper studies the strategic interaction on oligopolistic markets where firms have debt obligations. For sufficiently high (low) quantities (prices) of the competitors there exists no unique strategy that maximise equity holders payoff, since whatever quantity (price) an indebted firms sets,...
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Following Bernheim and Whinston (1990), this paper addresses the effects of multimarket contact on firms ability to collude in repeated oligopolies. Managerial incentives, taxation, and financial market imperfections tend to make firms objective function strictly concave in profits and market...
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finds that when managers have the preference for smooth time-paths of profits revealed by the evidence on "income smoothing … factor. When managers are in control, "price wars during booms" need not occur: the most collusive price tends to be pro-cyclical. …
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