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Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2023

both crucial for the emergence of outsourcing. The supplier purposefully avoids industry pro.t maximization to enlarge its …

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Strategic outsourcing revisited

Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Haucap, Justus (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper analyzes a sequential game where firms decide about outsourcing the production of a non-specific input good … Tirole (1984) to characterize the different equilibria. We find that outsourcing generally softens competition in the final … product market. If firms anticipate the impact of their outsourcing decisions on input prices, there may be equilibria where …

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Strategic Outsourcing Revisited

Bühler, Stefan; Haucap, Justus - 2004

This paper analyzes a sequential game where firms decide about outsourcing the production of a non-specific input good … Tirole (1984) to characterize the different equilibria and find that outsourcing generally softens competition in the final … product market. If firms anticipate the impact of their outsourcing decisions on input prices, there may be equilibria where …

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Strategic corporate social responsibility

Planer-Friedrich, Lisa; Sahm, Marco - 2017

We examine the strategic use of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in imperfectly competitive markets. The level of CSR determines the weight a firm puts on consumer surplus in its objective function before it decides upon supply. First, we consider symmetric Cournot competition and show that...

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Merger Without Cost Advantages

Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland - 2021

The seminal paper by Salant, Switzer and Reynolds (1983) showed that merger in a standard Cournot framework with linear demand and linear costs is not profitable unless a large majority of the firms are involved in the merger. However, many strategic aspects matter for firm competition such as...

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Strategic Commitment to Pursue a Goal Other than Profit in a Cournot Duopoly

Rtischev, Dimitry - 2012

a Cournot duopoly, and consider feasibility constraints from the perspective of strategic management …

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Cooperation in a Differentiated Duopoly when Information is Dispersed : A Beauty Contest Game with Endogenous Concern for Coordination

Cornand, Camille - 2019

The paper provides a micro-founded differentiated duopoly illustration of a beauty contest, in which the relative …

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Endogenizing managerial delegation : a new result under Nash bargaining and network effects

Scrimitore, Marcella - 2019

We reconsider the endogenous choice of delegation to a manager by two down-stream firms in both a Cournot and a Bertrand vertical market with network effects. An upstream monopolist charges a two-part tariff for a crucial input. By applying the Nash solution in a centralized bargaining, we show...

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Internal conflict, market uniformity, and transparency in price competition between teams

Kurschilgen, Michael; Morell, Alexander; Weisel, Ori - 2016

compete vis-à-vis each other, and, consequently, market outcomes. Participants took part in a repeated Bertrand duopoly game …

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On the Role of Patience in Collusive Bertrand Duopolies

Andersson, Ola - 2011

This paper analyzes the role of patience in a repeated Bertrand duopoly where firms bargain over which collusive price …

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