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Search, Project Adoption and the Fear of Commitment
Atal, Vidya; Bar, Talia; Gordon, Sidartha - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2013
requires a commitment for a period of uncertain duration, restricting the firm in subsequent periods. Capacity constraints … create a “fear of commitment” — some positive return projects are not adopted. In the sequential move dynamic game, the … informed. We study the e§ects of competition on the fear of commitment, and compare the jointly optimal adoption decision to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011003524
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Search, Project Adoption and the Fear of Commitment
Atal, Vidya; Bar, Talia; Gordon, Sidartha - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2013
requires a commitment for a period of uncertain duration, restricting the firm in subsequent periods. Capacity constraints … create a “fear of commitment” — some positive return projects are not adopted. In the sequential move dynamic game, the … informed. We study the e§ects of competition on the fear of commitment, and compare the jointly optimal adoption decision to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011003905
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Project selection : commitment and competition
Atal, Vidya; Bar, Talia; Gordon, Sidartha - In: Games and economic behavior 96 (2016), pp. 30-48
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Project selection : commitment and competition
Atal, Vidya; Bar, Talia; Gordon, Sidhartha - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415497
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Re-examining the Effects of Switching Costs
Rhodes, Andrew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Consumers often incur costs when switching from one product to another. Recently there has been renewed debate within the literature about whether these switching costs lead to higher prices. We build a theoretical model of dynamic competition and solve it analytically for a wide range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114071
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Quick or persistent? Strategic investment demanding versatility
Steg, Jan-Henrik; Thijssen, Jacco - 2015
In this paper we analyse a dynamic model of investment under uncertainty in a duopoly, in which each firm has an option to switch from the present market to a new market. We construct a subgame perfect equilibrium in mixed strategies and show that both preemption and attrition can occur along...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348268
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Quick or persistent? : strategic investment demanding versatility
Steg, Jan-Henrik; Thijssen, Jacco J. J. - 2015
In this paper we analyse a dynamic model of investment under uncertainty in a duopoly, in which each firm has an option to switch from the present market to a new market. We construct a subgame perfect equilibrium in mixed strategies and show that both preemption and attrition can occur along...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011284232
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Aggregators, search and the economics of new media institutions
George, Lisa M.; Hogendorn, Christiaan - In: Information Economics and Policy 24 (2012) 1, pp. 40-51
traditional media. Disaggregated content also increases the relevance of targeting for advertisers. But at the same time, search … effects of search technology and aggregators in digital media markets. A simple model shows how these institutions can alter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574535
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What types of switching costs to create under behavior-based price discrimination?
Rhee, Ki-Eun - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 37 (2014) C, pp. 209-221
We study firms' incentives to create switching costs using a four-period model consisting of two consecutive price-competing stages intervened by options to create switching costs early (before price competition) and late (during price competition). Acknowledging that many real/social switching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011117297
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Market power in oligopoly: The case of the Ukrainian cement industry
Oleksiy, Isayenko; Ivan, Maryanchyk - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2006
The object under consideration is the Ukrainian cement industry, which has undergone a serious change in many dimensions, including ownership structure and market structure. We analyze the dynamics of the output market structure and test the hypothesis of a possible collusive behavior introduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005519026