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An innovative firm chooses strategically whether to patent its process innovation or rely on secrecy. By doing so, the firm manages its rival’s beliefs about the size of the innovation, and affects the incentives in the product market. Different measures of competitive pressure in the product...
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conduct a laboratory experiment where firms decide only about their production levels first, and the information they receive … outcome. We consider an endogenous information setting where firms can freely decide whether they want to share information … about their past production levels. By voluntarily sharing information, firms can show their willingness to cooperate. We …
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the information structure, the mode of competition, and the degree of product differentiation. Moreover, in our experiment …We study the strategic disclosure of demand information and product-market strategies of duopolists. In a setting where … both firms receive information with some probability, we show that firms selectively disclose information in equilibrium in …
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demand environment with private information. The expected total output, consumer surplus, and total surplus are lower, while … rankings are the opposite to the rankings of prices, total output, surplus, and profits under perfect information. We also show … information game and the limit of Stackelberg perfect revealing equilibria, as the noise of the demand information of all firms …
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symmetric and asymmetric markets under two information conditions: complete versus incomplete information about profits. We find … that information has no effect in symmetric markets with respect to market prices and the time it takes for markets to … stabilize. However, in asymmetric markets, complete information leads to higher average market prices and quicker convergence of …
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We experimentally study the effect of information about competitors ́actions on cartel stability and firms ́incentives … to form cartels in Cournot markets. As in previous experiments, markets become very competitive when individualized … information is available and participants cannot communicate. In contrast, when communication is possible, results reverse …
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standard oligopoly; above the higher threshold there is a unique equilibrium in which all firms disregard that impact as in …
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than in either of the No Signal treatments. We also find that information about the other person's play appears to increase … this additional information are unable to overcome the apparent pessimism about the feasibility of coordination without a …
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We experimentally study behavior in a simple voting game where players have private information about their preferences …
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This paper considers price competition in a duopoly with quality uncertainty. The established firm (the `incumbent …', prices signal the entrant's quality only in a two-sided separating equilibrium and are identical to the full information …
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