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This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a …
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This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319871
prevent participants from using their world knowledge about antitrust, we experimentally test them on a neutral matrix game … expected. -- Oligopoly ; Collusion ; experiment ; Uncertainty ; negative externalities ; prisoner's dilemma …
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A well-known result by Vega-Redondo implies that in symmetric Cournot oligopoly, imitation leads to the Walrasian outcome where price equals marginal cost. In this paper we show that this result is not robust to the slightest asymmetry in fixed costs. Instead of obtaining the Walrasian outcome...
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might be willing to run a limited risk of being exploited by their competitors, hoping that the investment pays. This paper … oligopoly as a linear public good. -- Cartel ; Oligopoly ; Bertrand ; Cournot ; Public Good ; Externality ; Experiment …
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The paper presents the concept of an imitation equilibrium and explores it in the context of some simple oligopoly models. The concept applies to normal form games enriched by a reference structure specifying a reference group for every player. The reference group is a set of other players, whom...
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We examine the behavior of senders and receivers in the context of oligopoly limit pricing experiments in which high prices chosen by two privately informed incumbents may signal to a potential entrant that the industry-wide costs are high and that entry is unprofitable. The results provide...
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Multiple Cournot oligopoly experiments found more collusive behavior in markets with fewer firms (Huck et al., 2004; Horstmann et al., 2018). This result could be explained by a higher difficulty to coordinate or by lower incentives to collude in markets with more firms. We show that the Quantal...
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conduct a laboratory experiment where firms decide only about their production levels first, and the information they receive …
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This paper examines how time to build alters strategic investment behaviour under oligopoly. Facing demand uncertainty …-to-build investment is contrasted with another one in which investment is quick in place. We show that a time lag between when and how … much to invest reduces the incentive to delay. When investment requires time to complete, early investment occurs more to …
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