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Forecasting the Professional Team Sporting Events: Evidence from Euro 2000 and 2004 Football Tournaments

HALICIOGLU, Ferda - EconWPA - 2005

This study aims at predicting the most likely winners of international football tournaments. To this end, this paper …-of-season points from domestic football leagues to measure the degree of competitive balance and to use it as a comparative indicator … between the contesting countries in international football tournaments. The seasonal CV values computed from over ten seasons …

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CAN WE PREDICT THE OUTCOME OF THE INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL TOURNAMENTS : THE CASE OF EURO 2000?

Halicioglu, Ferda - EconWPA - 2005

This paper statistically analyses and attempts to predict the most likely winners of the Euro 2000 football tournament …

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Oligopolistic Business to Business E-Market and Welfare

Aoki, Reiko - EconWPA - 2001

We examine the effect of an oligopolistic upstream electronic market on upstream and downstream prices. The analysis highlights the two sources of competition that a firm that source from an electronic market (e- market firm) face: competition with less efficient firms that source traditionally...

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The Price Normalisation Problem in General Equilibriun Models with Oligopoly Power: An Attempt at Perspective

Willenbockel, Dirk - EconWPA - 2005

In general equilibrium models with oligopolistic firms, equilibrium outcomes may depend on the choice of numeraire. When firms have the power to influence prices strategically, different price normalisations entail objective profit functions which are generally not monotone transformations of...

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Telecommunications Regulation: An Introduction

Economides, Nicholas - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice of regulation in the US telecommunications sector. We examine the impact of technological and regulatory change on market structure and business strategy. Among others, we discuss the emergence and decline of the telecom bubble, the...

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Dynamic Price Adjustment Under Imperfect Competition

Eberwein, Curtis; To, Ted - EconWPA - 1998

We study dynamic price adjustment under imperfect competition when consumers have non-time-separable preferences. In our model an intertemporal link arises in the consumers' maximization problems because current consumption decisions affect the utility of future consumption. Thus future demand...

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Profit maximisation and alternatives in oligopolies

Klemm, Alexander - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyses oligopolies using the Cournot/Stackelberg framework, but allowing some firms to be pursueing aims other than profit maximisation. The existence of even a single output maximising firm can have dramatic effects on outputs, prices and welfare, even if such a firms faces...

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postbid market interaction and auction choice

Zhong, Hongjun - EconWPA - 2002

We study the influence of product market competition on the first-price sealed auction and the English ascending auction with independent cost types. Bidders, valuing the license basing on the information released in the first stage license bidding game and the possible game they will play in...

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Through Trial & Error to Collusion

Huck, Steffen; Normann, Hans-Theo; Oechssler, Joerg - EconWPA - 1998

In this note we study a very simple trial & error learning process in the context of a Cournot oligopoly. Without any …

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Network Externalities, Demand Inertia and Dynamic Pricing in an Experimental Oligopoly Market

Bayer, Ralph C; Chan, Mickey - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyses dynamic pricing in markets with network externalities. Network externalities imply demand inertia, because the size of a network increases the usefulness of the product for consumers. Since past sales increase current demand, firms have an incentive to set low introductory...

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