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We examine the effects of overlapping ownership in a Cournot oligopoly with free entry. If firms develop overlapping ownership only after entering, then an increase in the degree of overlapping ownership spurs entry but causes price to increase and total surplus to fall. Also, entry is never...
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In the context of supply function competition with private information, we test in the laboratory whether - as …
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In the context of supply function competition with private information, we test in the laboratory whether — as …
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In the context of supply function competition with private information, we test in the laboratory whether, as predicted …
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We develop a macroeconomic framework in which firms are large and have market power with respect to both products and labor. Each firm maximizes a share-weighted average of shareholder utilities, which makes the equilibrium independent of price normalization. In a one-sector economy, if returns...
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uncertain costs. It is found that with supply function competition, and in contrast to Bayesian Cournot competition … the collusive level. Furthermore, competition in supply functions aggregates the dispersed information of firms (the … equilibrium is privately revealing) while Cournot competition does not. The implication is that with the former the only source of …
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welfare losses is 1/ n2 . The results extend to demand schedule competition and a range of applications in product and …
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This paper considers cost-reducing R&D investment with spillovers in a Cournot oligopoly with minority shareholdings. We find that, with high market concentration and sufficiently convex demand, there is no scope for cross-ownership to improve welfare regardless of spillover levels. Otherwise,...
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In the context of supply function competition with private information, we test in the laboratory whether—as predicted …
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welfare losses is 1/ n2 [hoch 2] . The results extend to demand schedule competition and a range of applications in product … and financial markets are presented. -- reverse auction ; demand schedule competition ; market power ; adverse selection …
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