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sector are fully transmitted in changes to retail prices. Therole of market structure in determining the degree of price …
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output as well as the tax rate are increasingin investment. With divisible investment, commitment always leads to the first … underinvestment with taxation. With indivisible investmentand direct regulation, commitment leads to the first best. With taxation … however,commitment may not lead to the first best and time consistency can lead to higherwelfare. This remarkable result …
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The paper proves that in two-player logit form symmetric contestswith concave success function, commitment to a … provides a contest-like game inwhich commitment does not increase a player's payo for any numberof players... …
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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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We examine a Stackelberg game where a financially constrainedleader faces competition from a ‘deep pocket’ follower. We … analyzethe consequences of this trade-off between a financial and a strategicadvantage for both the design of financial contracts …
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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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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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interest rates. A three-period OLG model is presented with monopolistic competition in the finance sector to endogenise the …
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We show the welfare effects of entry in presence of technology licensingunder Cournot competition. If the entrant is …
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We consider the effects of an imperfectly competitive banking sector on the capital stock in a version of the two-period Diamond OLG model, focusing on how profits are returned. There are two broad alternatives: profits may be taxed and returned to households exogenously as fiscal transfers or...
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