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Crowding-in of complementary contributions to public goods: Firm investment into open source software
Reisinger, Markus; Ressner, Ludwig; Schmidtke, Richard; … - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 78-94
We present a fairly general model in which firms are competitors in a commercial market segment and can invest into a complementary public good like open source software. We show that, contrary to standard predictions, additional contribution to the public good by the government or a new market...
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COURNOT EQUILIBRIUM IN A MODEL OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE MANUFACTURERS’ INTERACTION
Soloviev, Vladimir I.; Iliina, Natalia A.; … - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 1 (2009) 11, pp. 4-4
A model of interaction between hardware vendors, Intel and AMD, and developers ofWindows and Linux operating systems is suggested. Intel and AMD both maximize profits forming atraditional oligopoly, while Microsoft and the community of Linux developers form a mixedduopoly, in which only the...
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Economic Cooperation in Natural Rubber: The Impacts on Natural Rubber’s World Supply and Indonesia’s Economy
Verico, Kiki - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development 10 (2013) 2, pp. 75-93
In 1999, the International Natural Rubber Agreement (INRA) which had regulated the world’s natural rubber since 1979 collapsed. This paper analyzed the impacts of this international agreement on both the global trade and supply of natural rubber as well as on Indonesia, a major producer...
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Retailers' Incentive to Sell through a New Selling Channel and Pricing Behavior in a Multi-channel Environment
Lu, Yuanzhu; Xing, Xiaolin; Tang, Fang-Fang - In: Annals of Economics and Finance 9 (2008) 2, pp. 315-343
We consider a duopoly market in which two retailers with different reputation compete in prices and one of the retailers is considering selling through a new channel. Consumers are reputation sensitive and averse to the new channel. In addition, the reputation sensitivity and new channel...
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The empirical content of games with bounded regressors
Kline, Brendan - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 37-81
This paper develops a strategy for identification and estimation of complete information games that does not require a regressor that has large support or a parametric specification for the distribution of the unobservables. The identification result uses a nonstandard but plausible condition on...
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Strategic Interactions and Atoms' Power in Public Goods Economies
Perets, Hovav; Shitovitz, Benyamin - In: Recherches économiques de Louvain 79 (2013) 4, pp. 33-44
In this paper we study the Nash equilibrium in a smooth public goods economy, described as a non-cooperative game, where the set of players is a mixed measure space of consumers. We assume a finite number of private goods. We show that under certain conditions there exists a unique Nash...
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Equilibrium mergers in a composite good industry with efficiencies
Pardo-Garcia, Cristina; Sempere-Monerris, Jose J. - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 1, pp. 101-127
This paper studies equilibrium merging behavior in composite good industries. Component producers face the option to either merge with a similar component producer (horizontal merger) or a complementary one (vertical merger) of a composite good. Focusing only on strategic reasons, vertical...
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Equilibrium mergers in a composite good industry with efficiencies
Pardo-Garcia, Cristina; Sempere-Monerris, José Jorge - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 1, pp. 101-127
This paper studies equilibrium merging behavior in composite good industries. Component producers face the option to either merge with a similar component producer (horizontal merger) or a complementary one (vertical merger) of a composite good. Focusing only on strategic reasons, vertical...
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Exploring Stackelberg profit ordering under asymmetric product differentiation
Banerjee, Dyuti S.; Chatterjee, Ishita - In: Economic Modelling 36 (2014) C, pp. 309-315
leader. The reverse is true below this level. This result holds for both substitutes and complements. …
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Multiproduct pricing in oligopoly
Shelegia, Sandro - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 30 (2012) 2, pp. 231-242
one. We find that information frictions lead to price dispersion. When the two goods are complements, their prices will … empirical evidence which suggests that simultaneous price discounts of complements are infrequent. If the goods are substitutes … complements, retailers earn higher profits than in the one-good model through taxing captive consumers with a high overall price …
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