and price competition in a duopoly with differentiated products. By allowing for partially privatizing a state …-controlled firm, we explore competition under different timings of firms’ moves and derive the conditions under which an optimal … optimal subsidy to restore the first-best allocation, irrespective of the mode of competition. The paper also focuses on the …

This paper studies the welfare consequences of a vertical merger that raises rivals costs when downstream competition …, that this result extends to price competition with differentiated products. …

This paper studies the welfare consequences of a vertical merger that raises rivals' costs when downstream competition …, that this result extends to price competition with differentiated products …

welfare in a price regulated duopoly with symmetric locations. In contrast to other studies on mixed oligopolies, this paper … shows that in a duopoly with regulated prices privatisation of the public hospital may increase overall welfare depending on … oligopoly ; price regulation ; quality ; hospital competition …