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This paper studies the welfare consequences of a vertical merger that raises rivals costs when downstream competition is à la Cournot between firms with constant asymmetric marginal costs. The main result is that such a vertical merger can nevertheless improve welfare if it involves a...
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Recovery of stranded costs is perhaps the most litigious issue encountering regulators in promoting competition in United States and European utility industries. We build a dynamic model of Cournot competition which takes into account a particular regulatory mechanism regularly employed in...
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symmetric duopoly, we show that while the profits are higher under Cournot competition, consumer surplus and welfare are higher …
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