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substitutes or complements, if the degree of public firm's inefficiency is sufficiently small, there exists a dominant strategy … private firm that chooses Bertrand competition if the degree of inefficiency is sufficiently large. Consequently, we show that … public firm's inefficiency is sufficiently small; and (ii) if the degree of its inefficiency is sufficiently large, social …
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We investigate a differentiated mixed duopoly in which private and public firms can choose to strategically set prices or quantities by facing a union bargaining process. For the case of a unionized mixed duopoly, only the public firm is able to choose a type of contract irrespective of whether...
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We investigate a differentiated mixed duopoly in which private and public firms can choose to strategically set prices or quantities by facing a union bargaining process. For the case of a unionized mixed duopoly, only public firm is able to choose a type of contract based on the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789653
firm's inefficiency is sufficiently small, no imposition of budget constraint is more likely to improve welfare and vice … smaller or larger than those of private firm depending upon the degree of inefficiency, which draws contrast to the finding of … preferences with regard to the imposition of budget constraint depending upon both the degree of inefficiency and imperfect …
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In this paper we extend the results of Kreps and Scheinkman (1983) to mixedduopolies. We show that quantity precommitment and Bertrand competition yield Cournot outcomes not only in the case of private firms but also when a public firm is involved.
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In this paper, we analyze a vertically differentiated mixed duopoly in medical care services. Pollution is the source of illness. The government has a dual role. It decides how much to invest to reduce the pollution level and it may participate in the health market running a public hospital. We...
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In this paper, we analyze a vertically differentiated mixed duopoly in medical care services. Pollution is the source of illness. The government has a dual role. It decides how much to invest to reduce the pollution level and it may participate in the health market running a public hospital. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157216
This paper reconsiders the literature on the irrelevance of privatization in mixed markets, addressing both quantity 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...
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The paper examines the timing of endogenous wage setting under Bertrand competition in a unionized mixed duopoly. The results are that when the public firm chooses the timing of wage setting: (1) sequential wage setting is the outcome and (2) simultaneous wage setting is the outcome. The first...
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This paper examines the optimal privatization policy in vertically related markets in which an upstream public firm competes with a foreign private rival in supplying a produced input to the domestic and foreign downstream firms in the domestic market. It shows that if the upstream public firm's...
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