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.Extending the duopoly model to the oligopoly case the results present that each additional competitor delays the first market … profitability on the optimal market entry timing and firm values. The duopoly model shows the existence of three types of … that continuation may disappear in some subgames of the market entry game in an oligopoly as a result of which no closed …
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The dissertation aims at verifying the hypotheses derived within a model of international trade theory of the New …
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differentiation the duopoly is subsidized or the government remains inactive. In contrast, the monopoly is always subsidized. The … government with a duopoly may be active or inactive depending on the degree of product differentiation. Thus, we may observe a …
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This thesis consists of two parts, which are connected by an introduction on auction and oligopoly markets and a short …
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This thesis contains four essays which are all from the broader field of insurance economics. The chapters can be read independently, although there is a certain connection between the articles. Chapter 2, which deals with moral hazard, and chapter 3, which is on oligopolistic models in the...
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The aim of this work is to establish a mathematically precise framework for studying games of capital accumulation under uncertainty. Such games arise as a natural extension from different perspectives that all lead to singular control exercised by the agents, which induces some essential...
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small and medium-sized companies are being taken into account. The transaction cost theory serves as the theoretical …
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This dissertation examines two problems that may arise in matching problems.The first two chapters deal with auctions for multiple units where bidders exhibitexternalities. The third chapter links risk aversion and information to unraveling inlabor markets.Auctions can lead to efficient...
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Since Hotelling's (1929) seminal work, economists have tried to understand how product differentiation affects price competition. I study the product location decisions, on a vertical characteristic space, of two sets of horizontal competitors when the inputs supplied by the "upstream" set (the...
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Credit card transactions cost American merchants six times as much as cash transactions. Why, then, do consumers pay the same price for purchases, regardless of the means of payment?The answer lies in a set of credit card network rules known as merchant restraints. Merchant restraints forbid...
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