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Strategic investment, forward markets and competition
Aichele, Markus - 2014
I model the strategic interaction between firms, that face decisions on investment, forward contracts and spot market quantities. For an investment decision that takes place after firms have contracted forward but before firms compete on the spot market (medium term investment), competition...
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Endogenous information disclosure in experimental oligopolies
Kopányi, Dávid; Kopányi-Peuker, Anita - 2015
difference in average total outputs across data aggregation and information settings. However, we observe more collusion when …
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Collusive vertical relations
Bolatto, Stefano; Lambertini, Luca - 2017
We investigate the possibility for two vertically related firms to at least partially collude on the wholesale price over an in.nite horizon to mitigate or eliminate the e¤ects of double marginalisation, thereby avoiding contracts which might not be enforceable. We characterise alternative...
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Induced price leadership and (counter-)spying rivals' play under incomplete information
Fan, Cuihong; Chŏn, Pyŏng-hŏn; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2019
We analyze spying out a rival's price in a Bertrand market game with incomplete information. Spying transforms a simultaneous into a robust sequential moves game. We provide conditions for profitable espionage. The spied at firm may attempt to immunize against spying by delaying its pricing...
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Forward trading and collusion in supply functions
Wölfing, Nikolas - 2019
This paper studies the effect of forward contracts on the stability of collusion among firms, competing in supply … functions on the spot market. A forward market can increase the range of discount factors which allow to sustain collusion. On … the contrary, collusion is destabilised when a potential deviator sells a significant amount forward. Results do not …
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Patent protection and threat of litigation in oligopoly
Capuano, Carlo; Grassi, Iacopo - 2018
entrant deviates from collusion, the incumbent can strengthen punishment suing the competitor for patent infringement …
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Patent protection and threat of litigation in oligopoly
Capuano, Carlo; Grassi, Iacopo - 2018
entrant deviates from collusion, the incumbent can strengthen punishment suing the competitor for patent infringement …
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Chapter 15 Antitrust
Kaplow, Louis; Shapiro, Carl - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1073-1225). 2007
policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each …
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Cournot meets Bayes-Nash : A discontinuity in behavior in finitely repeated duopoly games
Argenton, Cédric; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Müller, … - 2022
information, our data confirm the well-known result that duopoly players achieve, on average, partial collusion. However, as soon …
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Collusion sustainability with a capacity constrained firm
Madio, Leonardo; Pignataro, Aldo - 2022
constrained. We show that collusion sustainability is non-monotonic in the size of the capacity constrained firm, which has little …
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