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Horizontal merger analysis with endogenous product range choice

Erkal, Nisvan; Pan, Lijun - 2022

-product firms. Aggregate product variety is determined by product variety choices of multi-product firms and entry/exit decisions of …

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Multi-market competition, R&D, and welfare in oligopoly

Kawasaki, Akio; Lin, Ming Hsin; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2010

meets entrants that enter one of the markets. We find that entry can enhance the total R&D expenditure of the incumbent firm …. That is, entry can stimulate R&D effort. Moreover, the incumbent's profit nonmonotonically changes as the number of … entrants increases. Depending on the fixed entry costs and R&D technologies, both insufficient and excess entry can appear. …

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Market competition, R&D and firm profits in asymmetric oligopoly

Ishida, Junichiro; Matsumura, Toshihiro; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2010

We investigate a Cournot model with strategic R&D investments wherein efficient low-cost firms compete against less efficient high-cost firms. We find that an increase in the number of high-cost firms can stimulate R&D by the low-cost firms, while it always reduces R&D by the high-cost firms....

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Do consumers select food products based on carbon dioxide emissions? Evidence from a buying experiment in Japan

Aoki, Keiko - 2009

This study investigates how consumers value carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of food by conducting a choice experiment before an ecolabel is attached on some foods in Japan. Participants are asked to buy some Satsuma mandarin oranges based on price and CO2 emissions and take them home. The...

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Do Consumers Select Food Products Based on Carbonddioxide Emissions? Evidence from a Buying Experiment in Japan

Aoki, Keiko - 2015

This study investigates whether consumers select foods based on the levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by using a choice experiment in the laboratory. Respondents are asked to purchase a few Satsuma mandarin oranges based on price and the levels of CO2 emissions during different stages of...

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Gender and culture in a threshold public goods game: Japan versus Canada

Cadsby, C. Bram; Hamaguchi, Yasuyo; Kawagoe, Toshiji; … - 2001

We compare male and female behavior in Japan and Canada in the context of a threshold public goods game with both a strong free-riding equilibrium and many socially efficient threshold equilibria. Although higher rewards produce higher contributions, neither culture nor gender has any...

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Private provision of public goods that are complements for private goods: Application to open source software developments

Matsushima, Noriaki; Shinohara, Ryusuke - 2012

This paper examines the questions of who participates in the provision of a public good through the voluntary participation of agents in the presence of strong complementarity between a public good and a private good. We show that the greater the initial endowment of the private good that agents...

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A maximal domain for strategy-proof and no-vetoer rules in the multi-object choice model

Hatsumi, Kantaro; Berga, Dolors; Serizawa, Shigehiro - 2011

Following Barberà, Sonnenschein, and Zhou (1991, Econometrica 59, 595-609), we study rules (or social choice functions) through which agents select a subset from a set of objects. We investigate domains on which there exist nontrivial strategy-proof rules. We establish that the set of separable...

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The minimum approval mechanism implements the efficient public good allocation theoretically and experimentally

Masuda, Takehito; Okano, Yoshitaka; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi - 2013

We propose the minimum approval mechanism (MAM) for a standard linear public good environment with two players. Players simultaneously and privately choose their contributions to the public good in the first stage. In the second stage, they simultaneously decide whether to approve the other's...

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A coordination game model of charitable giving and seed money effect

Hatsumi, Kentaro - 2009

If potential donors for a charity project possess the warm-glow properties in their preferences, we can represent their behavior with a coordination game. Accordingly, we construct a simultaneous incomplete information game model of charitable giving based on a simple global coordination game....

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