, accounting for multi-homing helps to recognize complementarity between products; on the advertising side, it allows to measure to … what extent advertising demand depends on the shares of exclusive and overlapping readers. …

, accounting for multi-homing helps to recognize complementarity between products; on the advertising side, it allows to measure to … what extent advertising demand depends on the shares of exclusive and overlapping readers. …

losses in a class of utility functions. We offer a formula to find the percentage of welfare losses due to oligopoly in this …

Including the entry decision in a Bertrand model with imperfectly informed consumers, we introduce a trade-off at the … detrimental effect on consumer surplus and on social welfare. -- Market transparency ; endogenous entry ; homogenous products …

If an additional competitor reduces output per firm in a homogenous Cournot-oligopoly, market entry will be excessive … the excessive entry prediction. Tax evasion raises the number of firms in market equilibrium and can alter their welfare …-maximizing number. In consequence, evasion can aggravate or mitigate excessive entry. Which of these outcomes prevails is determined by …

evaluation is also justified in a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry. If input markets are competitive and output per … firm declines with the number of firms (business stealing), there is excessive entry into such oligopoly. If trade unions … raise wages above the competitive level, output and profits per firm decline, which could deter entry and thus improve …

This paper develops a model of successive oligopolies with endogenous market entry, allowing for varying degrees of … product differentiation and entry costs in both markets. Our analysis shows that the downstream conditions dominate the …

evaluation is also justified in a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry. If input markets are competitive and output per … firm declines with the number of firms (business stealing), there is excessive entry into such oligopoly. If trade unions … raise wages above the competitive level, output and profits per firm decline, which could deter entry and thus improve …

Cournot oligopoly in which firms produce a homogeneous commodity and market entry is feasible. Marginal costs are unknown ex …How does cost uncertainty affect the welfare consequences of an oligopoly? To answer this question, we investigate a … induces additional entry in market equilibrium and also raises the socially optimal number of firms. Since the first change …

If an additional competitor reduces output per firm in a homogenous Cournot-oligopoly, market entry will be excessive … the excessive entry prediction. Tax evasion raises the number of firms in market equilibrium and can alter their … welfaremaximizing number. In consequence, evasion can aggravate or mitigate excessive entry. Which of these outcomes prevails is …