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This paper extends the Cournot and Bertrand models of strategic interaction between firms by assuming that managers are … paper finds that if firms with reciprocal managers compete à la Cournot, then they may be able to sustain “collusive … reciprocity equilibrium. If there is Cournot competition between firms and their managers are averse to advantageous …
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behavior in the two competitive settings and lead all firms in oligopoly to gain higher profits in Cournot than in Bertrand … and Mitra (2010). In duopoly, aggregate profits are equivalent in Cournot and Bertrand. …
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infinity. In the limit, a range of outcomes stretching from Cournot via Stackelberg to Bertrand can result in equilibrium, i …-stage game, the set of outcomes is a quasi-hyperrectangle including Cournot, Allaz-Vila, and all two-stage Stackelberg outcomes …. In general, it consists of T-1 such hyperrectangles where the lower bound approaches the Bertrand outcome as T tends to …
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governments under subsidy regime, Cournot competition is more efficient than Bertrand competition when the goods are substitutes … is greater under Cournot competition than under Bertrand competition. … or quantities in a third market. We show that even though each firm can earn higher profits under Cournot competition …
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governments under subsidy regime, Cournot competition is more efficient than Bertrand competition when the goods are substitutes … about a change in the competition mode from Bertrand competition to Cournot competition if goods are substitutes. On the … or quantities in a third market. We show that even though each firm can earn higher profits under Cournot competition …
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The Black Scholes Model (BSM) is one of the most important concepts in modern financial theory both in terms of approach and applicability. The BSM is considered the standard model for valuing options; a model of price variation over time of financial instruments such as stocks that can, among...
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This paper demonstrates how the transformation of the taxi industry is an example of Coase’s Theorem in practice. The Coase Theorem, as postulated by Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase (1991), is one of the simplest yet profound ideas in economics. The recent advent of new mobile app entrants in the...
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In the very popular FOX TV reality show, American Idol, the judges, who are presumably experts in evaluating singing effort, have no voting power when the field is narrowed to the top twenty-four contestants. It is only the votes of viewers that count. In the 2007 season of the show, Simon...
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The aim of this paper was to verify if reminders of money influence the tendency to spend one’s resources on kin and friends. Previous research on the mere exposure to money concentrated only on behaviors directed at anonymous partners. However, in such situation the reciprocity rule is of...
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Behaviourism is the view that preferences, beliefs, and other mental states in social-scienti�c theories are auxiliary constructs re-describing people's behav- ioural dispositions. Mentalism is the view that they capture real phenomena, no less existent than the unobservable entities and...
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