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Customer Service Quality and Incomplete Information in Mobile Telecommunications: A Game Theoretical Approach to Consumer Protection

perez-amaral, teodosio; Zorzano, Rafael López; … - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, … - 2012

There is growing evidence that low-quality customer service prevails in the mobile telecommunications industry. In this paper we provide theoretical support to this empirical observation by using simple game theoretical models where inefficient low-quality service levels are part of an...

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Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck

Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - Economics Group, Nuffield College, Department of Economics - 2013

In a real effort experiment with repeated competition we find striking differences in how the work effort of men and women responds to previous wins and losses. For women losing per se is detrimental to productivity, but for men a loss impacts negatively on productivity only when the prize at...

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Gender matching and competitiveness: experimental evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie … - HAL - 2013

matched with, they then choose between a tournament or a piece rate payment scheme, and finally perform a real task. As … already observed in the literature, we find that significantly more men than women choose the tournament. The gender of the co … tournament incentives, or allowing the participants to choose the gender of their co-participant, increases women's willingness …

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Consumer search markets with costly revisits

Janssen, Maarten; Parakhonyak, Alexei - In: Economic Theory 55 (2014) 2, pp. 481-514

difference and their impact can be of the same order of magnitude as the initial search cost. In the Stahl oligopoly search model …

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Input pricing by an upstream monopolist into imperfectly competitive downstream markets

Pinopoulos, Ioannis - 2009

In downstream markets where entry is independent from profitability conditions, the upstream supplier’s optimal pricing policy is invariant with respect to downstream market structure. This price invariant result, however, is reversed when there is free entry in downstream market. When entry...

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Heinrich von Stackelberg’s

Scherer, F.M. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 23 (1996) October, pp. 58-70

. Presents the main theories of rivalrous interaction among business firms and the problems of oligopoly and monopoly. Notes how …

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Oligopolistic competition in price and quality

Dubovik, Andrei; Janssen, Maarten C.W. - In: Games and Economic Behavior 75 (2012) 1, pp. 120-138

We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers have heterogeneous information: some consumers know both the prices, and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices, and some know neither. We show that if there are sufficiently many...

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The welfare consequences of different regimes of oligopolistic competition in a growing economy with firm-specific knowledge

van de Klundert, Theo; Smulders, Sjak - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1993

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Profit maximization, industry structure, and competition: A critique of neoclassical theory

Keen, Steve; Standish, Russell - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 370 (2006) 1, pp. 81-85

Neoclassical economics has two theories of competition between profit-maximizing firms—Marshallian and Cournot–Nash—that start from different premises about the degree of strategic interaction between firms, yet reach the same result, that market price falls as the number of firms in an...

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Strategic delegation of responsibility in competing firms

de Bijl, P.W.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1995

is determined by his effort level, which depends on his private benefits. The managers compete on a product market by …

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