This paper shows the possibility of higher welfare under Cournot competition in an asymmetric cost duopoly when the … higher under Cournot competition compared to Bertrand competition when the initial cost difference of these firms is moderate …; but, for very small or very large cost initial cost differences, welfare is higher under Bertrand competition. If …

In a recent paper, Alipranti et al. (2014, Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market, Economics … Letters, 124: 122-126) show that in a vertically related market Cournot competition yields higher social welfare compared to … Bertrand competition if the upstream firm subsidises the quantity setting downstream firm's production via negative wholesale …

competition and aggregate innovation. We consider a two-stage game with a deterministic Research and Development (R&D) process … outputs simultaneously. We show that the inverted-U relationship between competition and aggregate innovation occurs if … competition is affected by the number of technology followers. However, the presence of more technology leaders decreases …

In a recent paper, Alipranti et al. (2014, Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market, Economics … Letters, 124: 122-126) show that in a vertically related market Cournot competition yields higher social welfare compared to … Bertrand competition if the upstream firm subsidises the quantity setting downstream firm's production via negative wholesale …

becomes convoluted with information and payoff spillovers. The threat of competition pushes firms to enter earlier to preempt … elusive link between static market competition and dynamic entry competition …