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On competition and the strategic management of intellectual property in oligopoly
Jansen, Jos - 2009
product substitutability) gives a smaller (greater) patenting incentive. Switching from Bertrand to Cournot competition gives …
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Abuse of Competitive Fringe
Capuano, Carlo - 2005
The purpose of this article is to analyze how the presence of a competitive fringe, composed by price taker firms, can affect the sustainability of collusive equilibria. Our starting point is that there exists a diffused misunderstanding about its strategical role as collusive minus factor. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312265
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Environmental Quality in a Differentiated Duopoly
Farzin, Y. Hossein; Akao, Ken-Ichi - 2006
In a duopoly industry with environmentally differentiated products, we examine the effects of introducing a mandatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333078
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Electronic coordination in oligopolistic markets: Impact on transport costs and product differentiation
Bandulet, Martin; Morasch, Karl - 2002
elektronische Koordination und in verstärkte Produktdifferenzierung in einem Duopol mit räumlich getrennten Märkten. Wir zeigen … duopoly where firms compete in two spatially separated markets. We show that firms always have nonnegative incentives to … Produktdifferenzierung eigentlich erhöhen. Wir analysieren die Interaktion der Investitionsentscheidungen in transportkostensenkende …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300398
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International Coordination of Quality Standards and Vertical Product Differentiation
Lutz, Stefan - 2003
I study the influence of minimum quality standards in a partial-equilibrium model of vertical product differentiation and trade in which duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented markets. Three alternative standard setting arrangements are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297292
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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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Quality competition or quality cooperation? License-type and the strategic nature of open source vs. closed source business models
von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2010
model that combines aspects of non-cooperative R&D with the theory of differentiated oligopolies: In stage one, firms … complementary products and compete à la Cournot. The model allows for horizontal product differentiation in stage two. The finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273866
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The market for melons: Cournot competition with unobserval qualities
Argenton, Cédric - 2006
market where buyers only observe the average quality supplied. The model is a generalization of the standard Cournot duopoly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281170
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Intermediation by heterogeneous oligopolists
Morasch, Karl - 2010
In his book on 'Market Microstructure' Spulber presented some strange results with respect to the impact of the substitutability parameter in an intermediation model with differentiated products and inputs. Intuitively, effects in the product and the input market should be similar: if firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304487
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Reciprocal Dumping with Bertrand Competition
Friberg, Richard; Ganslandt, Mattias - 2005
Cournot duopoly trade can reduce welfare compared to autarchy for any degree of product differentiation. Under Bertrand …This paper examines if international trade can reduce total welfare in an international oligopoly with differentiated …
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