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Price and Inventory Dynamics in an Oligopoly Industry: A Framework for Commodity Markets
Steinmetz, Alexander - 2010
This paper analyzes the interaction between price and inventory decisions in an oligopoly industry and its implications … endogenous prices and strategic oligopoly competition. We show that the optimal decision rule is an (S, s) order policy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294737
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Mutual Recognition of National Minimum Quality Standards may Support International Convergence
Lutz, Stefan - 2003
In a model of vertical product differentiation, duopolistic firms face qualitydependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented markets. Minimum quality standards, set according to the principle of Mutual Recognition, can be used to increase welfare. The results of the one-shot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298134
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Price and inventory dynamics in an oligopoly industry: A framework for commodity markets
Steinmetz, Alexander - 2010
This paper analyzes the interaction between price and inventory decisions in an oligopoly industry and its implications … endogenous prices and strategic oligopoly competition. We show that the optimal decision rule is an (S, s) order policy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300834
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Horizontal mergers with synergies: first-price vs. profit-share auction
Ding, Wei; Fan, Cuihong; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - 2010
We consider takeover bidding in a Cournot oligopoly when firms have private information concerning the synergy effect … oligopoly game. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333759
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A Product Market Theory of Worker Training
Gersbach, Hans; Schutzler, Armin - 2001
We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262533
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On competition and the strategic management of intellectual property in oligopoly
Jansen, Jos - 2009
An innovative firm chooses strategically whether to patent its process innovation or rely on secrecy. By doing so, the firm manages its rival's beliefs about the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market. Different measures of competitive pressure in the product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267007
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Game-theoretical, Strategic forward Contracting in the Electricity Market
Holmberg, Pär - 2008
Forward sales is a credible commitment to aggressive spot market bidding, and it mitigates producers' market power in electricity markets. Still it can be profitable for a producer to make such a commitment if it results in a soft response from competitors in the spot market (strategies are...
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Abbink, Klaus; Brandts, Jordi - 2003
Bertrand competition under decreasing returns involves a wide interval of pure strategy equilibrium prices. We first present results of experiments in which two, three and four identical firms repeatedly interact in this environment. Less collusion with more firms leads to lower average prices....
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Evolution with Mutations Driven by Control Costs
Weibull, Jörgen W.; van Damme, Eric - 1998
Bergin and Lipman (1996) show that the refinement effect from the random mutations in the adaptive dynamics in Kandori, Mailath and Rob (1993) and Young (1993) is due to restrictions on how these mutation rates vary across population states. We here model these mutation rates as endogenously...
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What have we learned from Evolutionary Game Theory so far?
Weibull, Jörgen W. - 1997
framework of non-cooperative game theory. Evolutionary game theory studies the robustness of strategic behaviour with respect to … economic theory has lead to new predictions and opened up doors to other social sciences. The discussion will be focused on the … in evolutionary game theory so far? What are the next challenges for evolutionary game theory in economics? …
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