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Cost uncertainty in an oligopoly with endogenous entry

De Pinto, Marco; Goerke, Laszlo - 2021

How does cost uncertainty affect the welfare consequences of an oligopoly? To answer this question, we investigate a … Cournot oligopoly in which firms produce a homogeneous commodity and market entry is feasible. Marginal costs are unknown ex …-up. Furthermore, the welfare loss due to oligopoly tends to increase with uncertainty. …

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Oligopoly and Risk Aversion

Asplund, Marcus - 1998

In this paper we consider how the degree of risk aversion, and demand/cost uncertainty, influence competition on oligopolistic markets. Under demand uncertainty, the best response strategies (both quantities and prices) are decreasing in risk aversion, but for cost uncertainty, quantities are...

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Uncertainty, Market Structure and Strategic Trade Policy

Ning, Haokai - 2022

We introduce demand uncertainty into the context of strategic trade policy in an export rivalry market model, and we examine endogenous timing in the framework of Cournot-Stackelberg duopoly when firms decide in the first stage whether to set output level before or after resolution of...

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Ranking supply function and cournot equilibria in a differentiated product duopoly with demand uncertainty

Sağlam, İsmail - In: Games 9 (2018) 3/60, pp. 1-13

In this paper, we provide a welfare ranking for the equilibria of the supply function and quantity competitions in a differentiated product duopoly with demand uncertainty. We prove that the expected consumer surplus is always higher under the supply function competition, irrespective of whether...

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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma: An experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011

From the perspective of competitors, competition may be modeled as a prisoner's dilemma. Setting the monopoly price is cooperation, undercutting is defection. Jointly, competitors are better off if both are faithful to a cartel. Individually, profit is highest if only the competitor(s) is (are)...

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Oligopoly as a Socially Embedded Dilemma : An Experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011

From the perspective of competitors, competition may be modeled as a prisoner’s dilemma. Setting the monopoly price is cooperation, undercutting is defection. Jointly, competitors are better off if both are faithful to a cartel. Individually, profit is highest if only the competitor(s) is...

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Oligopoly as a socially embedded dilemma : an experiment

Engel, Christoph; Zhurakhovska, Lilia - 2011

expected. -- Oligopoly ; Collusion ; experiment ; Uncertainty ; negative externalities ; prisoner's dilemma …

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Informationsaustausch und trotzdem Wettbewerb? Unternehmensverhalten bei Nachfrageunsicherheit

Hornig, Stephan O. - 1999

general model of a heterogeneous oligopoly where the firms decide on their optimal range of information exchange in the first …

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Switching Costs, Dynamic Uncertainty, and Buyer-Seller Relationships

Murthy, Nagesh - 2007

We analyze strategic relationships between buyers and sellers in markets with switching costs and dynamic uncertainty by investigating the scenario wherein a representative buyer trades with two foreign sellers located in the same foreign country. We show that, under exchange rate uncertainty,...

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Risk-Averse Firms and Two-Part Tariffs under Uncertainty

Yin, Xiangkang - 2008

the market is fully covered. In oligopoly, consumer welfare increases (decreases) in the Arrow-Pratt measure of absolute …

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