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This paper demonstrates that the standard conclusions regarding the comparison of Cournot and Bertrand competition are … Cournot competition yields higher output, lower wholesale prices, lower final prices, higher consumers' surplus, and higher … total welfare than Bertrand competition. …
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Letters, 124: 122-126) show that in a vertically related market Cournot competition yields higher social welfare compared to … Bertrand competition if the upstream firm subsidises the quantity setting downstream firm’s production via negative wholesale …
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Cartels are inherently instable. Each cartelist is best off if it breaks the cartel, while the remaining firms remain loyal. If firms interact only once, if products are homogenous, if firms compete in price, and if marginal cost is constant, theory even predicts that strategic interaction...
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. The application of focus for Cournot competition is power markets while that for Bertrand competitionis product design. We …The focus of this research is on the analysis and computation of equilibria in noncooperative Cournot and Bertrandgames … consider Cournot-based models for strategic behavior in power markets while Bertrandbasedmodels are employed for analyzing the …
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This paper reconsiders the literature on the irrelevance of privatization in mixed markets, addressing both quantity and price competition in a duopoly with differentiated products. By allowing for partially privatizing a state-controlled firm, we explore competition under different timings of...
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the relative profitability of Cournot vs. Bertrand when a per unit royalty is applied. By contrast, we find that Cournot … yields higher profits than Bertrand under ad valorem royalties, regardless of the strength of network effects. …
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This paper demonstrates that the standard conclusions regarding the comparison of Cournot and Bertrand competition are … Cournot competition yields higher output, lower wholesale prices, lower final prices, higher consumers' surplus, and higher … total welfare than Bertrand competition. …
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This paper reconsiders the literature on the irrelevance of privatization in mixed markets, addressing both quantity and price competition in a duopoly with differentiated products. By allowing for partially privatizing a state-controlled firm, we explore competition under different timings of...
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