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& Tirole [1988] theory of Edgeworth Cycles to a wide range of more complicated and realistic settings. Taking a computational … approach to search for Markov Perfect Equilibria, I examine models involving duopoly and triopoly, differentiation, capacity …
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This paper studies how cross-sector strategic trade policy affects wages, country-wide profits, and welfare. I develop a simple model of two-country continuum-of-sectors general oligopolistic equilibrium. Demands are linear and sectors involve one domestic firm competing on quantity with its...
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quality-improving investments. In many commonly-studied oligopoly games, such investments are strategic substitutes. We derive … commonly-studied oligopoly models. We also highlight plausible countervailing effects from two distinct sources. First, leading …, when firms are sufficiently patient. Key words: oligopoly games, strategic substitutes, innovation, investment, increasing …
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We investigate the relationship between competition and innovation using a dynamic oligopoly model that endogenizes …
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This paper proposes a model of corporate control and oligopolistic competition under common ownership. Each firm’s conduct results from Nash bargaining (NB) among shareholders and firms play a Nash equilibrium in Nash bargains. NB encompasses a rich class of models of corporate control under...
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We consider a Cournot oligopoly market of firms possessing increasing returns to scale technologies (which may not be …
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Suppose differentiated firms compete in quantities. This paper derives a formula for the minimum cost savings that would offset the incentive to increase price created by a merger. The formula depends only on pre-merger information on margins and demand slopes, and is invariant to demand and...
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firms compete in an international Cournot oligopoly, and in which countries use strategic trade policy. We find that firms …
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We study the profitability incentives of merger and the endogenous industry structure in a strategic trade policy environment. Merger changes the strategic trade policy equlilibrium. We show that merger can be profitable and welfare enhancing here, even though it would not be profitable in a...
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