This paper examines capacity-constrained oligopoly pricing with sellers who seek myopic improvements. We employ the …

for three specific linear quadratic games - Cournot oligopoly, Keynes' beauty contest and Public good provision - in which …

, under very general conditions, equilibria exist where mergers take place, and there is no presumption that there is …. -- merger ; asymmetric information ; oligopoly ; single crossing …

mergers and economic theory, moreover, demonstrates that privately unprofitable mergers can be the result of rational action … such a rule would cause a considerable amount of false positives. -- oligopoly theory ; horizontal merger policy …We demonstrate that the popular Farrell-Shapiro-framework (FSF) for the analysis of mergers in oligopolies relies …

economy has become highly integrated, and foreign outsourcing has become a standard practice for firms. While trade theory …

In this paper, we tackle the dilemma of pruning versus proliferation in a vertically differentiated oligopoly under the …

noninvesting firms. In each period, one investor can acquire a small firm, the other investor decides about market entry. After … that all firms play an oligopoly game. We derive conditions under which increasing market concentration arises with myopic … spectrum of a firm. -- acquisitions ; entry ; concentration ; synergies ; product variety …