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Game theory has revolutionised our understanding of industrial organisation and the traditional theory of the firm …. Despite these advances, industrial economists have tended to rely on a restricted set of tools from game theory, focusing on … differential game theory to economics, argues that many dynamic phenomena in industrial organisation (such as monopoly, oligopoly …
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Game theory has revolutionised our understanding of industrial organisation and the traditional theory of the firm …. Despite these advances, industrial economists have tended to rely on a restricted set of tools from game theory, focusing on … differential game theory to economics, argues that many dynamic phenomena in industrial organisation (such as monopoly, oligopoly …
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Profit-seeking firms can be induced to internalise the environmental damages caused by production via several policy instruments, a widely used one being emission permits. In a very influential paper, Laffont and Tirole (J Public Econ 62:127-140, 1996) point out that the allocation of pollution...
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We charaterise the socially optimal mix of firms in an oligopoly with both profit-seeking and labour-managed firms. The policy maker faces a twofold externality: (i) production entails the exploitation of a common pool natural resource and (ii) production/consumption pollutes the environment. We...
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We investigate the introduction of a minimum quality standard (MQS) in a vertically differentiated duopoly with an environmental externality. We establish that the MQS bites only if the hedonic component of consumer preferences is sufficiently strong. Then, we illustrate an underlying tradeoff...
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We reformulate the Verhulst-Lotka-Volterra model of natural resource extraction under the alternative assumptions of Cournot behaviour and perfect competition, to revisit the tragedy of commons vs the possibility of sustainable harvesting. We stress the different impact of demand elasticity on...
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