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Entry in a vertically separated industry:price vs. quantity competition

Mukherjee, Arijit; Broll, Udo; Mukherjee, Soma - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2004

This paper considers the effects of entry in the final goods market when the input market is imperfectly competitive. We show that entry of a new firm may increase profit of the incumbent if the technology of the entrant is sufficiently inferior to that of the incumbent...

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PRICE AND QUANTITY COMPETITION UNDER FREE ENTRY

Mukherjee, Arijit - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2004

This paper shows that if number of firms is determined endogenously, Cournot competition generates higher welfare … compared to Bertrand competition when products are sufficiently differentiated. If products are close substitutes, welfare is … higher under Bertrand competition. We show that the qualitative results are robust with respect to different demand …

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UNIONIZED LABOR MARKET ANDDIVISIONALIZATION

Mukherjee, Arijit; Broll, Udo; Mukherjee, Soma - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics; … - 2006

We show the incentive for divisionalization by a monopolist producer. Incontrast to the previous literature, where divisionalization occurs for product marketadvantage, we show that divisionalization occurs if it provides strategic advantage inthe labor market. With unionized labor market, we...

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Commitment in Symmetric Contests

Possajennikov, Alex - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2008

The paper proves that in two-player logit form symmetric contestswith concave success function, commitment to a particular strategydoes not increase a player's payo, while in contests with more thantwo players it does. The paper also provides a contest-like game inwhich commitment does not...

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Strategic bi-sourcing

Beladi, Hamid; Mukherjee, Arijit - University of Texas <San Antonio, Tex.>; University … - 2008

profitable strategyunder both monopoly and product market competition. The incentive for bi-sourcingdepends on the product market … and outside input market competition... …

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FINANCIAL PREDATION BY THE WEAK

Bougheas, Spiros; Saksit Thananittayaudom - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2005

We examine a Stackelberg game where a financially constrainedleader faces competition from a ‘deep pocket’ follower. We …

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COMPETITION, INNOVATION AND WELFARE

Mukherjee, Arijit - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2005

We show the effects of Bertrand and Cournot competition on R&D investmentand social welfare in a duopoly with R …&D competition where success in R&D isprobabilistic. We show that R&D investments are higher under Bertrand (Cournot)competition when … Cournot competition can generate highersocial welfare in absence of knowledge spillover and this happens if R&D is drastic …

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ENTRY IN A STACKELBERG PERFECTEQUILIBRIUM

Mukherjee, Arijit - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2005

This paper considers welfare effects of entry when the incumbent firmbehaves like a Stackelberg leader in the product market. In contrast to previous work(Klemperer, 1988, Journal of Industrial Economics), we show that entry may alwaysincrease welfare. Using general demand function, we show the...

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IMPERFECTLY COMPETITIVE FINANCE, SENIORITY WAGES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Roberts, Mark A. - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2005

interest rates. A three-period OLG model is presented with monopolistic competition in the finance sector to endogenise the …

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ENTRY, LICENSING AND WELFARE

Mukherjee, Arijit; Mukherjee, Soma - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2005

We show the welfare effects of entry in presence of technology licensingunder Cournot competition. If the entrant is …

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