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We analyze a Cournot duopoly market with differentiated goods and the separation between ownership and control. We … substitutability than it really has. This is so either because managers are biased and perceive the good in this way, or because firms …
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We show that Miller and Pazgal.s (2001) model of strategic delegation, in which managerial incentives are based upon relative performance, is affected by a non-existence problem which has impact on the price equilibrium. The undercutting incentives generating this result are indeed similar to...
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I propose a differential oligopoly game of resource extraction under (quasi-static) open-loop and nonlinear feedback …
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We revisit the two-stage duopoly game with strategic delegation and asymmetric technologies of Sen and Stamatopoulos … (2015). We show that their conclusions are misled by the restrictive assumption that the extent of delegation to managers is … prisoners dilemma, the unique subgame perfect equilibrium entailing both firms hiring managers. At equilibrium, the more …
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between owners and managers who might have different incentives. To understand the degree to which misspecifying firms … maximization. Considering the US antitrust regime, the experiment sets up cartel fines for firms' managers as well as owners. I …) Managers are more likely to form cartels when managers' and owners' incentives are different compared to when their incentives …
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profitable for owners to hire biased managers. Our work shows that a universal policy that effectively eliminates such biases …
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In this experiment, we analyze strategic delegation in a Cournot duopoly. Owners can choose among two different … contracts which determine their managers' salaries. One contract simply gives managers incentives to maximize firm profits … only rarely chosen in the experimental markets. This behavior is rational given that managers do not play according to the …
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We derive Bertrand and Cournot equilibria in a differentiated duopoly in which each firm hires a manager to undertake … Cournot game. Furthermore, Cournot and Bertrand models with overconfident managers in- duce low prices, massive productions …
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We identify a mistake in the specification of the demand system used in the strategic delegation model based on market shares by Jansen et al. (2007), whereby the price remains above marginal cost when goods are homogeneous. After amending this aspect, we perform a profit comparison with the...
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