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We model differentiated product pricing by firms that possess private information about serially-correlated state variables, such as their marginal costs, and can use prices to signal information to rivals. In a dynamic game, signaling can raise prices significantly above static complete...
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Empirical studies have found that enhanced foreign competition can encourage or discourage innovation. To address this relationship, I examine a market structure in which a small number of large multi-product oligopolists compete with a large number of small single-product firms in the same...
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We study the efficiency of oligopoly equilibria in congested markets. The motivating examples are the allocation of …
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Estimating market power is often complicated by the lack of reliable measures of marginal cost. Instead, policy-makers often rely on other summary statistics of the market, thought to be correlated with price cost margins---such as concentration ratios or the HHI. In many industries, these...
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oligopoly models similar to that of Pakes and McGuire (1994) …
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We introduce a model of oligopoly dynamic pricing where firms with limited capacity face a sales deadline. We establish …
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from trade under Bertrand and Cournot oligopoly. Firms differentiate their products to mitigate competition, but only if …
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failure to observe homogeneous product Bertrand oligopoly, while homogeneous product Cournot oligopoly has significant …
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We augment the multi-market collusion model of Bernheim and Whinston (1990) by allowing for firm entry into, and exit from, individual markets. We show that this gives rise to a new mechanism by which a cartel can sustain a collusive agreement: Collusion at the extensive margin whereby firms...
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of oligopoly concerns resulting from mergers. In this paper, we provide a critique of Bork's views on merger policy from …
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