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From the perspective of competitors, competition may be modeled as a prisoner's dilemma. Setting the monopoly price is cooperation, undercutting is defection. Jointly, competitors are better off if both are faithful to a cartel. Individually, profit is highest if only the competitor(s) is (are)...
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From the perspective of competitors, competition may be modeled as a prisoner’s dilemma. Setting the monopoly price is cooperation, undercutting is defection. Jointly, competitors are better off if both are faithful to a cartel. Individually, profit is highest if only the competitor(s) is...
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expected. -- Oligopoly ; Collusion ; experiment ; Uncertainty ; negative externalities ; prisoner's dilemma …
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We run a laboratory experiment with a two-person game with unique pure Nash equilibrium which is also the solution of …
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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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This paper reports 45 laboratory duopoly markets that examine the importance of information sharing in facilitating … information when possible to reduce their demand uncertainty, which led to output reductions in some demand states. Risk aversion … is a likely explanation for this sharing, but some sellers also appeared to employ a strategy of information concealment …
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This paper reports 45 laboratory duopoly markets that examine the importance of information sharing in facilitating … information when possible to reduce their demand uncertainty, which led to output reductions in some demand states. Risk aversion … is a likely explanation for this sharing, but some sellers also appeared to employ a strategy of information concealment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213961
It is commonly assumed that friendship should generally benefit agents' ability to tacitly coordinate with others. However, this has never been tested on two "opposite poles" of coordination, namely, games of strategic complements and substitutes. We present an experimental study in which...
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because of shifting demographics or of asymmetric information about preferences. Realistically distributions of consumer …
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general model of a heterogeneous oligopoly where the firms decide on their optimal range of information exchange in the first …Information exchange between firms not necessarily pursues collusion purposes. It is shown that with demand uncertainty … even competitively behaving firms reveal private information concerning their demand conditions. This is derived in a …
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