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We study road supply by competing firms between a single origin and destination. In previous studies, firms simultaneously set their tolls and capacities while taking the actions of the others as given in a Nash fashion. Then, under some widely used technical assumptions, firms set a...
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Even under antitrust enforcement, firms may still form a cartel in an infinitely-repeated oligopoly model when the … discount factor is sufficiently close to one. We present a linear oligopoly model where the profit-maximizing cartel price …
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Water markets with market power are analysed as multi-market Cournot competition in which the river structure constrains access to local markets and limited resources impose capacity constraints. Conditions for uniqueness are identified. Lerner indices are larger under binding resource...
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We present a strategic game of pricing and targeted-advertising. Firms can simultaneously target price advertisements to different groups of customers, or to the entire market. Pure strategy equilibria do not exist and thus market segmentation cannot occur surely. Equilibria exhibit random...
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We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know neither. We show that two types of signalling...
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This paper presents an empirical examination of oligopoly pricing and consumer search. The theoretical model allows for …
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We present an oligopoly model where a certain fraction of consumers engage in costly non-sequential search to discover …
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is severe. In a symmetric Bertrand oligopoly where products may differ only in their quality, production cost is …
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We modify the paper of Stahl (1989) [Stahl, D.O., 1989. Oligopolistic pricing with sequential consumer search. American Economic Review 79, 700–12] by relaxing the assumption that consumers obtain the first price quotation for free. When all price quotations are costly to obtain, the unique...
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We study a consumer non-sequential search oligopoly model with search cost heterogeneity. We first prove that an …
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