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We study a differentiated product market in which an investor initially owns a controlling stake in one of two competing firms and may acquire a non-controlling or a controlling stake in a competitor, either directly using her own assets, or indirectly via the controlled firm. While industry...
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We study a differentiated product market in which an investor initially owns a controlling stake in one of two competing firms and may acquire a non-controlling or a controlling stake in a competitor, either directly using her own assets, or indirectly via the controlled firm. While industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274862
We study the feasibility and profitability of predation in a parsimonious infinite-horizon, complete information setting where an incumbent may face an entrant, in which case it needs to decide whether to accommodate or predate it. If the entrant exits, a new entrant is born with positive...
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We consider the interaction between an incumbent firm and a potential entrant, and examine how this interaction is affected by demand fluctuations. Our model gives rise to procyclical entry, prices, and price-cost margins, although the average price in the market can be countercyclical if the...
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We study the feasibility and profitability of predation in a parsimonious infinite-horizon, complete information setting where an incumbent may face an entrant, in which case it needs to decide whether to accommodate or predate it. If the entrant exits, a new entrant is born with positive...
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We study the feasibility and profitability of predation in a dynamic environment, using a parsimonious infinite-horizon, complete information setting in which an incumbent repeatedly faces potential entry. When a rival enters, the incumbent chooses whether to accommodate or predate it; the...
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Electronic commerce has grown extraordinarily over the years, with online auctions being extremely successful forms of … trade. Those auctions come in a variety of different formats, such as the Buy-It-Now auction format on eBay, that allows … in Buy-It-Now auctions, as to this point little is known about how sellers set Buy-It-Now prices. We investigate into …
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to making an auction choice impacts their choice decision and/or the outcome of the auctions. The results show a strong …
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The conventional wisdom in the auction design literature is that first price sealed bid auctions tend to make more … money while ascending auctions tend to be more efficient. We re-examine these issues in an environment in which bidders are … 'overentry' into the ascending auctions. …
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bidders could resolve this anomaly the claim that risk aversion drives overbidding in first price auctions is somewhat …
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