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Using real options game models, we consider the characterization of strategic equilibria associated with an asymmetric R&D race between an incumbent firm and an entrant firm in the development of a new innovative product under market and technological uncertainties. The random arrival time of...
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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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generally more competitive than the Cournot outcome, irrespective of whether the Cournot outcome is the Nash equilibrium or not …. Nevertheless, the Cournot model entails some predictive power. Exact Cournot choices are more likely to occur for both capacities … and prices under efficient demand rationing, where the Cournot outcome is the equilibrium, than under proportional …
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the relative profitability of Cournot vs. Bertrand when a per unit royalty is applied. By contrast, we find that Cournot …
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We conduct a series of Cournot duopoly market experiments with a high number of repetitions and fixed matching. Our …
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We conduct a series of Cournot duopoly market experiments with a high number of repetitions and fixed matching. Our …
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We consider the spatial competition between two traditional physical (or offline) retailers and an Internet (or online) retailer where the efficiency of the latter differs from that of the former. We assume consumers are heterogeneous across two dimensions: (i) the costs of traveling to either...
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"Electronic coordination links markets at different locations that have initially been (partially) separated by transport costs. Rising competitive pressure should in turn affect incentives to differentiate products. In this paper investment decisions concerning transport cost reduction and...
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We develop a stylized model of horizontal and vertical competition in tournaments with two competing firms. The sponsor cares about the quality of the design but also about the design location. A priori not even the sponsor knows his preferred design location, which is only discovered once he...
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