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Voluntary Contributions with Uncertainty: the Environmental Quality.

Jouvet, P.-A. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1998

This paper presents an overlapping generations model of environmental externalities with a depollution technology. We show that if an agent is sufficiently risk averse, voluntary contribution is a decreasing function of average efficiency of depollution technology. If on the contrary, the...

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Voluntary contributions with uncertainty: the environmental quality.

JOUVET, Pierre-André - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1998

This paper presents an overlapping generations model of environmental externalities with a depollution technology. Each agent concerned by the environmental degradation can voluntarily contribute in order to reduce it. Contributing to the environmental quality means financing depollution...

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Hawks and doves in segmented markets: A formal approach to competitive aggressiveness

D’ASPREMONT, Claude; DOS SANTOS FERREIRA, Rodolphe; … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2012

Competitive aggressiveness is analyzed in a simple spatial competition model, where each one of two firms supplies two … controlled by each firm through its manager hiring decision, in a preliminary stage of a delegation game. When competition is … effect on profitability of more intense competition. …

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Regulation of an open access essential facility

GAUTIER, Axel; MITRA, Manipushpak - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003

consumers. The regulator designs a mechanism that guarantees financing of the essential input and adequate competition in the …

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Efficiency of competition in insurance markets with adverse selection

DE FEO, Giuseppe; HINDRIKS, Jean - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2005

There is a general presumption that competition is a good thing. In this paper we show that competition in the … competition if and only if competition leads to market unravelling. When there are a continuum of types the efficiency of … competition is less trivial. In effect monopoly is shown to provide better insurance but at the cost of driving out some agents …

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On efficiency, concentration and welfare

BOCCARD, Nicolas - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2009

The welfare impact of a merger involves the market power offense and the efficiency defense. Salant et al. (1983) show that mergers among symmetric firms are unprofitable except for monopolization. We characterize the limit to this merger paradox in a simple linear Cournot oligopoly with...

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Strategic Complements and Substitutes in Bilateral Oligopolies.

Bloch, F.; Ferrer, H. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1998

This note analyzes the effect of product complementarity in a bilateral oligopoly. We show that offers of traders on the two sides of the market are strategic complements (substitutes) if and only if the two goods are substitutes (complements). The outcome of the bilateral oligopoly game...

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STACKELBERG LEADERSHIP AS A NATURAL SOLUTION UNDER COST UNCERTAINTY.

ALBAEK, S. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1989

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LOCATION.

GABSZEWICZ, J.J.; THISSE, J-F. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1989

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Relaxing Bertrand Competition: Capacity Commitment Beats Quality Differentiation.

Boccard, N.; Wauthy, X. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1999

Both product differentiation through quality and capacity commitment have been shown to relax price competition …

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