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R&D games in a Cournot duopoly with isoelastic demand functions: A comment

Luckraz, Shravan - In: Economic Modelling 28 (2011) 6, pp. 2873-2876

In a recent paper, Tramontana (Economic Modelling, 27; 350–357, 2010) investigates the stability properties of a Cournot Duopoly game when the demand function is isoelastic. In this note, we show that for some well known applications of two-stage Cournot games (D. Aspremont and Jacquemin,...

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Mixed equilibrium in a pure location game : the case of n ≥ 4 firms

Ewerhart, Christian - 2014

The Hotelling game of pure location allows interpretations in spatial competition, political theory, and professional forecasting. In this paper, the doubly symmetric mixed-strategy equilibrium for n ≥ 4 firms is characterized as the solution of a well-behaved boundary value problem. The...

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Game of Organizing International Cricket: Co-Existence of Country-Line and Club-Line Games

Das, Satya Prasanna - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008), pp. 1-29

The paper presents an economic model of interaction between cricket boards, players and international club-line games sponsors like ICL or IPL. It attempts to capture the inherent conflict between such games and country-line games traditionally organized by cricket boards. It identifies the...

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The Regulation of Professional Team Sports

Sloane, Peter J. - International Association of Sport Economists - IASE - 2000

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Within-series momentum in hockey: No returns for running up the score

Kniffin, Kevin M.; Mihalek, Vince - In: Economics Letters 122 (2014) 3, pp. 400-402

Drawing on data from 916 Division 1 men’s college hockey games played during a recent six-year period in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), we find evidence that positive momentum within 458 two-game series does not exist when controlling for team quality. We find that neither...

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The Sugar Daddy Game: How Wealthy Investors Change Competition in Professional Team Sports

Lang, Markus; Grossmann, Martin; Theiler, Philipp - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 167 (2011) 4, pp. 557-577

Professional sports leagues have witnessed the appearance of sugar daddies - people who invest enormous amounts of … money in clubs and become their owners. This paper presents a contest model of a professional sports league that …

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Network neutrality on the Internet: A two-sided market analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - In: Information Economics and Policy 24 (2012) 2, pp. 91-104

We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell … regulation (requiring zero fees to content providers): there exist parameter ranges for which network neutrality regulation … content providers. However, for other parameter values, network neutrality regulation can decrease total surplus. Extending …

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Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)

Harbord, David; Hoernig, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...

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An Olympic Level Playing Field? The Contest for Olympic Success as a Public Good

Groot, Loek - In: Journal of Economics and Econometrics 55 (2012) 2, pp. 25-50

This article considers the performance of countries at the Olympic Games as a public good. Firstly, it is argued that, at the national level, Olympic success meets the two key conditions of a public good: non-rivalry and non-excludability. Secondly, it is demonstrated that standard income...

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With whom to merge?: A tale of the Spanish banking deregulation process

Lozano Vivas, Ana; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A.; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 2, pp. 159-184

We propose a spatial competition model to study banks’ strategic responses to the asymmetric Spanish geographic deregulation process. We find that once the geographic deregulation process finishes, inter-regional mergers between savings banks are optimal whenever the economies of scale...

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