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Capacity choice in a duopoly with a consumer-friendly firm and an absolute profit-maximizing firm
Nakamura, Yasuhiko - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 34 (2014) C, pp. 105-117
This paper studies a capacity choice problem in a duopoly with substitutable goods that is composed of one consumer …-friendly firm and one standard absolute profit-maximizing firm in the contexts of both quantity competition and price competition … absolute profit and consumer surplus. We show that in the quantity competition, for the consumer-friendly firm, under …
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Public regulatory intervention in consumer-friendly firms
Ribeiro, Vitor Miguel - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2014
We study a duopoly with differentiated and substitutable goods composed of one consumer-friendly firm and one pure …-profit maximizing firm. In such a duopoly, a regulatory authority intervenes to control the degree of altruism of the consumer …-friendly firm. We conclude that under quantity competition, if firms sell goods that are too homogeneous the policymaker should …
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Delegation and Emission Tax in a Differentiated Oligopoly
Pal, Rupayan - eSocialSciences - 2009
damage and social welfare, under alternative modes of product market competition is examined. It shows that, under pure … differentiation, irrespective of the mode of competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520381
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Trade Policy with Heterogeneous Traders; Do Quotas Get a Bum Rap?
Krishna, Kala; Tan, Ling Hui - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper considers the effects of trade policy-tariffs and quotas-when importing is done by competitive traders who are identical ex ante but differ ex post. We show that the standard equivalence results no longer hold and the conventional ranking of tariffs and quotas is turned on its head:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248181
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Counterfeit Goods and Income Inequality
Scandizzo, Stefania - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
This paper examines the effect of counterfeit goods in a world where consumers are differentiated by level of income and innovation is quality enhancing. Counterfeit goods are defined as products with the same characteristics as “originals”, but of lower quality. The effect of imitation on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826398
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Role of demand-side strategy in quality competition
Ye, Guangliang; Mukhopadhyay, Samar K. - In: International Journal of Production Economics 145 (2013) 2, pp. 696-701
competition in quality and price. A demand side strategy research looks towards markets and consumers unlike the traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011043259
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Einzelhandelsversorgung außerhalb der Verdichtungskerne: Probleme und neue Anforderungen durch demographischen Wandel. Analyse und Lösungsansätze
Gräf, Peter - Akademie für Raumforschung and Landesplanung
Der Einzelhandel in der Bandbreite seiner heutigen Erscheinungsformen hat auf der Angebotsseite sowie auf der Nachfrageseite in den zurückliegenden Jahrzehnten einen gravierenden Wandel vollzogen. Dabei ist eine generalisierende Beurteilung sehr schwierig, liegen doch zwischen SB-Warenhäusern,...
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Smart entry in local retail markets for electricity and natural gas
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Morasch, Karl; Tóth, Rita Orsolya - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2009
mit einer festen Marge dem traditionellen Eintritt mit anschließendem Preiswettbewerb überlegen ist, da dem etablierten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462119
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The Economics of Welfare Standards in Antitrust
Farrell, Joseph; Katz, Michael L - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2006
There has been considerable debate concerning whether consumer surplus or total surplus should be the welfare standard for antitrust. This debate misses two critical issues. First, antitrust is not straightforwardly welfarist—it does not maximize but protects, and it does not forbid all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010843459
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Beyond Revealed Preference Choice Theoretic Foundations for Behavioral Welfare Economics
Bernheim, Douglas; Rangel, Antonio - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2007
This paper proposes a choice-theoretic framework for evaluating economic welfare with the following features. (1) It is applicable irrespective of the positive model used to describe behavior. (2) It subsumes standard welfare economics both as a special case (when standard choice axioms are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009141770