same time increases competition. As a result, the platform lowers the firm fees and raises the consumer charges. In … competition. In this case, the platform raises both the charge to the consumers and the fee for the firms …

competition by a competitive fringe that produces low quality. We show that the brand manufacturer optimally provides a decoy good …

competition and the group effect support the profits of firms with a high ethical code. Paradoxically, a strong group identity …

, we consider symmetric Cournot competition and show that the endogenous level of CSR is positive for any given number of …

same time increases competition. As a result, the platform lowers the firm fees and raises the consumer charges. In … competition. In this case, the platform raises both the charge to the consumers and the fee for the firms. …

point of view perfect competition is not always desirable …

In a recent paper, Alipranti et al. (2014, Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market, Economics … Letters, 124: 122-126) show that in a vertically related market Cournot competition yields higher social welfare compared to … Bertrand competition if the upstream firm subsidises the quantity setting downstream firm's production via negative wholesale …

was an incumbent who sold to all consumers. We identify the equilibrium both with Stackelberg and Bertrand competition and …