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The stagnation of the Italian economy over the last two decades is widely documented. During this period, the world economy has become highly integrated, and foreign outsourcing has become a standard practice for firms. While trade theory predicts benefits from the internationalization of...
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In this paper, we tackle the dilemma of pruning versus proliferation in a vertically differentiated oligopoly under the …
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This paper introduces a number of game-theoretic tools to model collusive agreements among firms in vertically differentiated markets. I firstly review some classical literature on collusion between two firms producing goods of exogenous different qualities. I then extend the analysis to a...
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. -- merger ; asymmetric information ; oligopoly ; single crossing …
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for three specific linear quadratic games - Cournot oligopoly, Keynes' beauty contest and Public good provision - in which …
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such a rule would cause a considerable amount of false positives. -- oligopoly theory ; horizontal merger policy …
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This paper examines capacity-constrained oligopoly pricing with sellers who seek myopic improvements. We employ the …
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. This article explores how far export tariffs on agricultural goods combined with public investments, could be used as a … that it is possible to combine export tariffs with public investments such that deforestation decreases, while agricultural …
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This paper emphasises the importance of the political-institutional dimension in the understanding of the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce the notion of Territorial Authority Scale, which refers to the degree of devolution (towards sub-national tiers of government)...
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