Professions such as doctors and lawyers often enjoy some degree of self-regulation, i.e. they can set the codes of conduct in the market and even determine the rules for joining the profession. We address the problem of the optimal scope of self-regulation. Specifically, we model a profession...

The trade-off between the costs and benefits of disclosing a firm's private information has been the object of a vast literature. The absence of incentives to share information on a common market demand prior to competition has been advocated to interpret information sharing as evidence of...

This article presents a new approach to analyze the equilibrium set of symmetric, differentiable games by separating multiple symmetric equilibria and asymmetric equilibria. This separation allows the investigation of, for example, how various parameter constellations affect the scope for...

En este trabajo se muestran condiciones para la unicidad del equilibrio de Nash-Cournot para un juego de n-firmas. Estas condiciones garantizan que las funciones de mejor respuesta para n-firmas que compiten en forma oligopolica a la Cournot sean contracciones y generalizan las condiciones de...

The problem of demand discontinuity in the original Hotelling (1929) model with linear transport costs and a uniform distribution of consumers on an interval can be solved either by introducing quadratic transport costs (d'Aspremont et al, 1979) or by going to a two-dimensional space...

This paper proposes a game-theoretic model to analyze the strategic behavior of inc-dec gaming in market-based congestion management (redispatch). We extend existing models by considering incomplete information about competitors' costs and a finite set of providers. We find that these extensions...