oligopoly. Our analysis reveals that the complete network, where each firm collaborates with all others, is uniquely stable …, industry-profit maximizing and efficient. This result is in contrast with earlier contributions in private oligopoly where … under strong market rivalry a conflict between stable and efficient networks is likely to occur. A key finding of the paper …

particular interest is hereby firms' embeddedness into subsidized cooperation networks. For the empirical analysis we utilize an …

stay away from investment wars. Using the results from 107 published experiments on oligopoly, a meta-study shows that …. -- Antitrust ; Innovation ; research and development agreements ; block exemption ; oligopoly experiments ; meta-study …

We analyze the endogenous formation of R&D networks, where firms are active in different product markets and can …