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Intermodal and Intramodal Competition in Passenger Rail Transport
Ivaldi, Marc; Vibes, Catherine - 2005
The objective of the paper is to elaborate a simulation model to analyze inter- and intra-modal competition in the … effect of a kerosene tax. Hence our framework could serve as a tool to measure the effectiveness of competition on a relevant … market or to design marketing strategies. More generally it can be applied in cases of oligopolistic competition when …
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Network Externalities and Friendly Neighbors : When Firms Choose to Invite Competition
White, Dustin - 2017
Economic theory on the subject of barriers to entry focuses almost exclusively on firms seeking to preserve market power and economic profits. In this paper, we propose that, under certain circumstances, firms may instead choose to reduce barriers to entry as a profit-maximizing mechanism. We...
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Competitive Information Design
Garcia, Daniel - 2020
information disclosure relax competition and may reduce aggregate surplus. We provide several applications, including labor …
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High-Speed Rail & Air Transport Competition
Adler, Nicole; Nash, Chris; Pels, Eric - 2008
taking into account competition between multiple privatized transport operator types. The operators, including high …-speed rail, hub and spoke legacy airlines and low cost carriers, maximize profit functions via prices, frequency and train …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325992
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High-speed rail & air transport competition
Adler, Nicole; Nash, Chris; Pels, Eric - 2008
taking into account competition between multiple privatized transport operator types. The operators, including high …-speed rail, hub and spoke legacy airlines and low cost carriers, maximize profit functions via prices, frequency and train …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377255
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A Dynamic Oligopoly Game of the US Airline Industry : Estimation and Policy Experiments
Aguirregabiria, Victor - 2016
in the US airline industry. Our results are based on the estimation of a dynamic oligopoly game of network competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012706994
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Waiting to merge
Fumagalli, Eileen; Nilssen, Tore - 2008
We set up a sequential merger game to study a firm's incentives to pass up on an opportunity to merge with another firm. We find that such incentives may exist when there are efficiency gains from a merger, firms are of different sizes, there is an antitrust authority present to approve mergers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285594
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Nature of competition and new technology adoption
Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh - 2014
outcome in the 'scoring auction'. We show that the nature of competition (Cournot or Bertrand) has no effect on the …. With corner solution the nature of competition (Cournot or Bertrand) makes a difference to the equilibrium outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010253807
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Conjectural variation models and supergames with price-competition in a differentiated product oligopoly
Pfaffermayr, Michael - 1999 - Revised version
-two firm case the CV-parameter is shown to cover the full range of possible outcomes - from Bertrand competition to joint …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491765
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Divisionalization in contests
Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland - 2000
To be represented by more than one contestant in a contest has advantages and disadvantages. This paper determines the conditions under which it is favorable to send several agents into the contest. -- contests ; Divisionalization ; delegation
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