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Collusive Agreements in Vertically Differentiated Markets

Marini, Marco A. - 2017

proliferating their products. It is shown that a selective pruning within the cartel always occurs. Moreover, by associating a … cooperative (or coalitional) stability of the whole industry cartel is the equidistance of firms' products along the quality …

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The Impacts of Exogenous Oil Supply Shocks on Mediterranean Economies

Bastianin, Andrea - 2016

The security of energy supply is a key geopolitical factor in the relationship between the European Union and the southern neighborhood countries of the Middle East and North Africa region. We study the response of eight Mediterranean economies to exogenous oil supply shocks. We focus on the...

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Modelling the Global Price of Oil : Is There Any Role for the Oil Futures-Spot Spread?

Valenti, Daniele - 2018

In this work, we propose an analysis of the global market for crude oil based on a revised version of the Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) model introduced by Kilian and Murphy (2014). On this respect, we replace the global proxy for above-ground crude oil inventories with the oil...

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The External Cost of European Crude Oil Imports

Bigano, Andrea - 2009

This paper is the first to assess operational and probabilistic externalities of oil extraction and transportation to Europe on the basis of a comprehensive evaluation of realistic future oil demand-supply scenarios, of the relative relevance of import routes, of the local specificities in terms...

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Vertical Differentiation and Collusion : Cannibalization or Proliferation?

Gabszewicz, Jean J. - 2016

In this paper, we tackle the dilemma of pruning versus proliferation in a vertically differentiated oligopoly under the assumption that some firms collude and control both the range of variants for sale and their corresponding prices, likewise a multiproduct firm. We analyse whether pruning...

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Collusion in Quality-Segmented Markets

Bos, Iwan; Marini, Marco A. - 2021

. Within this setting, we study four types of price- xing agreement: (i) a segment-wide cartel in the premium submarket only …, (ii) a segment-wide cartel in the standard submarket only, (iii) two segment-wide cartels, and (iv) an industry …-wide cartel. We present a complete characterization of the collusive pricing equilibrium and examine the corresponding effect on …

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Niche vs. central firms: Technology choice and cost-price dynamics in a differentiated oligopoly

Bacchiega, Emanuele; Garella, Paolo G. - 2018

This paper is about technology choices in a differentiated oligopoly. The main questions are: whether the position in the product space affects the choice of technology, how changes in fixed costs affect price outcomes, the strategic responses to policy interventions. The industry is an...

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Uncertainty and Risk-aversion in a Dynamic Oligopoly with Sticky Prices

Valentini, Edilio - 2019

In this paper we present a dynamic discrete-time model that allows to investigate the impact of risk-aversion in an oligopoly characterized by a homogeneous non-storable good, sticky prices and uncertainty. Our model nests the classical dynamic oligopoly model with sticky prices by Fershtman and...

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R&D Collaboration Networks in Mixed Oligopoly

Zikos, Vasileios - 2008

We develop a model of endogenous network formation in order to examine the incentives for R&D collaboration in a mixed oligopoly. Our analysis reveals that the complete network, where each firm collaborates with all others, is uniquely stable, industry-profit maximizing and efficient. This...

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Spying in Multi-Market Oligopolies

Billand, Pascal; Bravard, Christophe; Chakrabarti, Subhadip - 2010

We consider a multimarket framework where a set of firms compete on two interrelated oligopolistic markets. Prior to competing in these markets, firms can spy on others in order to increase the quality of their product. We characterize the equilibrium espionage networks and networks that...

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