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The author describes a series of matrix choice games illustrating monopoly, shared monopoly, Cournot, Bertrand, and … or, more currently, through foreign sales corporations. Addition of Bertrand competition allows discussion of price wars …
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This paper demonstrates that the standard conclusions regarding the comparison of Cournot and Bertrand competition are … Cournot competition yields higher output, lower wholesale prices, lower final prices, higher consumers' surplus, and higher … total welfare than Bertrand competition. …
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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 …
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Cartels are inherently instable. Each cartelist is best off if it breaks the cartel, while the remaining firms remain loyal. If firms interact only once, if products are homogenous, if firms compete in price, and if marginal cost is constant, theory even predicts that strategic interaction...
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This paper reconsiders the literature on the irrelevance of privatization in mixed markets, addressing both quantity and price competition in a duopoly with differentiated products. By allowing for partially privatizing a state-controlled firm, we explore competition under different timings of...
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the relative profitability of Cournot vs. Bertrand when a per unit royalty is applied. By contrast, we find that Cournot … yields higher profits than Bertrand under ad valorem royalties, regardless of the strength of network effects. …
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This paper demonstrates that the standard conclusions regarding the comparison of Cournot and Bertrand competition are … Cournot competition yields higher output, lower wholesale prices, lower final prices, higher consumers' surplus, and higher … total welfare than Bertrand competition. …
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the subsidy equivalence between Cournot (Bertrand) private leadership and simultaneous Bertrand (Cournot) under duopoly …
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This paper compares Cournot and Bertrand equilibria in a downstream differentiated duopoly in which the input price … that the standard result that Cournot equilibrium profits exceed those under Bertrand competition - when the differentiated … duopoly game is played in imperfect substitutes - is reversible. Whether equilibrium profits are higher under Cournot or …
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This paper extends the Cournot and Bertrand models of strategic interaction between firms by assuming that managers are … paper finds that if firms with reciprocal managers compete à la Cournot, then they may be able to sustain “collusive … reciprocity equilibrium. If there is Cournot competition between firms and their managers are averse to advantageous …
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