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We study the development of a duopoly industry -evolution of firm capacities and competitive behavior- in a continuous-time real-options model of capacity investment. Our methodology allows the evaluation of investment options and exercise rules in a strategic setup. In the initial industry...
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We study a simple duopoly model of preemption with multiple investments and instantaneous Bertrand competition in a stochastically growing market. Different patterns of equilibria may arise, depending on the importance of the real option effect. If the average growth rate of the market is close...
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infer causation from education to smoking and find strong evidence that education, whether it be measured in years of …, more particularly the probability of smoking regularly. Interestingly, however, while we find that more education … substantially increases the probability of never smoking, our other main finding is suggestive that increased education has a …
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individuals with low levels of education, and to situate it in the context of the evolution in the value of a high school diploma … over the 1981-1996 period, conditional on not pursuing post-secondary education. To do so I make use of Statistics Canada … whether the value of holding a high school diploma (excluding the option value of pursuing post-secondary education) has …
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Nous étudions l'émergence de fluctuations endogènes dans un modèle à générations imbriquées dans lequel les producteurs se livrent une concurrence à la Cournot avec libre entrée. L'économie est caractérisée par un taux de marge variable et des rendements croissants. Nous analysons...
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We study the links between observability and flexible technological choices in a duopolistic market. We show that, in large markets, the strategic value of flexibility is positive and observability of technological choices promotes the adoption of more flexible technologies whereas in small...
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Fudenberg et Kreps (1993), Young (1993), et Sela et Herreiner (1999) ont souligné l'insuffisance du critère de convergence en croyances du processus de Fictitious Play dans un cadre d'apprentissage des équilibres de Nash. En conséquence, nous choisissons d'étudier la convergence en...
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Dans une course à l'innovation, les possibilités de rattrapage d'une entreprise distancée sont-elles aiguisées ou au contraire exclues par la présence d'externalités de R&D ? Pudenberg, Gilbert, Stiglitz et Tirole montrent dans une course au brevet avec observation imparfaite de...
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Un groupe d'agents décide de mettre à sa disposition un site collectif polluant. Pour ce faire, ils font appel à une entreprise chargée de la localisation et de la construction de l'installation. Celle-ci leur propose une procédure de localisation/tarification soumise à l'approbation de...
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The topic of this paper is public financing of university education in Quebec, which is analysed from the point of view …
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