This study investigates mixed markets in which a social welfare-maximizing public firm and a private firm engage in … from the viewpoint of social welfare. This is because poaching does not occur. In the international mixed duopoly, BBPD … improves domestic social welfare, as it allows the public firm to lower its poaching price. In both cases, privatization is …

We investigate the effect of a ban on third-degree price discrimination on the sustainability of collusion. We build a …' discount factor has to be higher in order to sustain collusion in grim-trigger strategies under price discrimination than under …

from a theoretical stance how introducing asymmetry in the substitution effects influences the sustainability of collusion … which are asymmetric in magnitude. Within this framework, we study partial collusion using Friedman (1971) solution concept …. Our main result shows that the interval of quantities supporting collusion in the asymmetric setting is always smaller …

information, our data confirm the well-known result that duopoly players achieve, on average, partial collusion. However, as soon …