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Competition policy is a subject of heated debate. Antitrust authorities, seeking to battle anticompetitive behavior in … such imperfect antitrust enforcement on firms' strategies are considered. It is found that the incidence of anti … likely it is that authorities are over-zealous - in the sense that welfare is better served by an antitrust authority that is …
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In this paper we study the behavior of rivals when there is a known probability of imminent entry. Experimental markets are used to collect data on pre- and post-entry production when there is an announced time of possible entry; some markets experience entry and other do not. In all pre-entry...
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Game-theoretic models of marketing channels typically rely on simplifying assumptions that, from a behavioral perspective, often appear naïve. However, behavioral researchers have produced such an abundance of behavioral regularities that they are impossible to incorporate into game-theoretic...
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Consider a society with a finite number of individuals. A coalition structure is a partition of the set of individuals. Each individual has personal preferences over the set of all coalition structures. We study the strategy proof core and von Neumann and Morgenstern (vN&M) solutions. A roommate...
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Almost all results on competitive product positioning derived in the literature so far are based on the hypothesis that static Nash equilibria of profit-maximizing competitors are accurate predictors of final market configurations. If the positioning behavior of firms differs from this...
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In order to explain in a systematic way why certain combinations of market, financial, and legal structures may be intrinsic to certain capabilities to exchange real goods, we introduce criteria for abstracting the qualitative functions of markets. The criteria involve the number of strategic...
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We introduce and justify a taxonomy for the structure of markets and minimal institutions which appear in constructing minimally complex trading structures to perform the functions of price formation, settlement and payments. Each structure is presented as a playable strategic market game and is...
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n the analysis of value capture, it is central to understand what value each group of players can capture when leaving the negotiation table. Frequently, this will entail engaging in competition, i.e., non-negotiated, strategic interactions with the other players. For instance, if merger talks...
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This paper studies a dynamic bargaining model with informational externalities between bargaining pairs. Two principals …
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