Italian Abstract: Note sui modelli classici di strategie di differenziazione orizzontale del prodotto con costi di trasporto lineari Hotelling (1929) e quadratici D'Aspremont, Gabsewicz e Thisse (1979). Vengono studiati i risultati dovuti ad imprese con funzioni di costo diverse. Segue una...

Italian Abstract: Vengono esposti i classici risultati dei modelli di oligopolio con beni differenziati sia sostituti che complementari a mosse simultanee, sequenziali e colllusive, con variabile strategica quantità o prezzo. L'utilizzo di funzioni lineari permette di calcolare, disegnare e...

Italian Abstract: L'obiettivo di questo capitolo è il rapporto tra la funzione di costo, che stilizza le ipotesi sui rendimenti di scala, e la funzione d'offerta dell'impresa concorrenziale, singola e aggregata. Useremo la teoria microeconomica standard della produzione allo scopo di...

Richard Markovits’ view that “neither the pre-conduct nor the post-conduct possession of monopoly power should as a matter of law be required for a Section 2 conviction” could not be more inconsistent with how Section 2 of the Sherman Act has been interpreted. This essay examines his view...

As paid search becomes the mainstream platform for online advertising today, competition further intensifies. The main objective of this research is two-fold. On the one hand, we want to understand, in the context of paid-search advertising, the effects of competition (measured by number of ads...

India’s retailing sector is expected to remain in a transition spiral for the foreseeable future. Because of India’s unique context – in terms of history, regulation, institutions, demographics, geography, and traditions – there is limited applicability of the available theories of...

My research so far, which reveals fundamental mistakes of the conventional (neoclassical) economic theory, is based mainly on the (wrong) perception of this theory for the price taking and the horizontal demand curve for the firm, using instead the correct individual demand curve for the firm,...

Cournot influenced neoclassical economics deeply on two significant issues. First, on the issue of the price taking concept and horizontal demand curve for the firm, by the misinterpretation of his price stability condition by the neo-classical theorists. And second, on the issue of the number...

This paper is a continuation and completion of my article “Revisiting Cournot and Neoclassical Economics” (Nomidis 2023). It continues the search for the reasons that led Cournot and later Neoclassical theorists to consider an infinite number of minimal-size firms as a necessary condition...