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We analyze a symmetric n-firm Cournot oligopoly with a heterogeneous population of optimizers and imitators. Imitators mimic the output decision of the most successful firms of the previous round à la Vega-Redondo (1997). Optimizers play a myopic best response to the opponents' previous output....
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Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht ein Duopol bei unsicherer Nachfrage unter Risikoaversion. Die Produktion der gesamten … Terminmarkt erhalten. -- Nachfrageunsicherheit ; Duopol ; Terminmarkt ; Risikopolitik …The paper studies an duopoly with risk averse firms exposed to demand uncertainty. A risk sharing market is introduced …
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In this experiment, we analyze strategic delegation in a Cournot duopoly. Owners can choose among two different …, while the second contract gives an additional sales bonus. Although theory predicts the second contract to be chosen, it is …
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Since Kreps and Scheinkman's seminal article (1983) a large number of papers have analyzed capacity constraints' potential to relax price competition. However, the ensuing literature has assumed that products are either perfect or very close substitutes. Therefore none of the papers has...
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We investigate the effect of a ban on third-degree price discrimination on the sustainability of collusion. We build a model with two firms that may be able to discriminate between two consumer groups. Two cases are analyzed: (i) Best-response symmetries so that profits in the static Nash...
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This paper provides experimental evidence on exit behavior of asymmetrically sized firms in a duopoly with declining …
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We conducted a laboratory experiment to study the price setting behavior in two-sided markets. We seek to answer two specific research questions: Do participants charge the equilibrium prices that can be derived from a theoretical model? How is the price setting affected by the characteristics...
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The paper proves the existence of a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium in a vertically differentiated duopoly with …
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We investigate how competition in product niches affects the ultimate timing of product release for experience goods using data on motion pictures in the United States. We identify product niches that movies occupy along three different product dimensions: common actor, common director, and...
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