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Estimating Discrete Games with Many Firms and Many Decisions : An Application to Merger and Product Variety

Fan, Ying; Yang, Chenyu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper presents a new method for estimating discrete games based on bounds of conditional choice probabilities. The method does not require solving the game and is scalable to models with many firms and many discrete decisions. We apply the method to study merger effects on firm entry and...

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Rational Non-Strategic Entry

Yang, Nathan - 2023

This paper explores the rationality of non-strategic entry decisions. I develop a model where firms commit to being strategic or non-strategic before making their simultaneous entry decisions. My analysis shows that commitment to non-strategic entry behavior can be rationalized. Furthermore, the...

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Strategic Commitment Versus Flexibility in a Duopoly With Entry and Exit

Ruiz-Aliseda, Francisco - 2015

We present a continuous-time real options game in which two firms must decide at each instant of time whether to be in or out of a market that expands up to a random maturity date and contracts thereafter. Firms differ only in the opportunity costs of usage of the assets they employ (e.g., owing...

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Strategic Entry and Market Leadership in a Two-Player Real Options Game

Shackleton, Mark B.; Tsekrekos, Andrianos E.; … - 2013

We analyse the entry decisions of competing firms in a two-player stochastic real option game, when rivals can exert different but correlated uncertain profitabilities from operating. In the presence of entry costs, decision thresholds exhibit hysteresis, the range of which is decreasing in the...

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Economics of open source software

Johnson, Justin P. (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev

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Guarding the commons : how community managed software projects protect their work

O'Mahony, Siobhán - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 32 (2003) 7, pp. 1179-1198

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Public subsidies for open source? : Some economc policy issues of the software market

Schmidt, Klaus M.; Schnitzer, Monika - 2003

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Public Subsidies for Open Source? Some Economic Policy Issues of the Software Market

Schmidt, Klaus M.; Schnitzer, Monika - 2015

This paper discusses the economic merits of direct or indirect governmental support for open source projects. Software … differences between proprietary software and open source software with respect to these market features and ask whether open … source as an alternative to proprietary software can mitigate these problems. Then we discuss the implications of various …

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Open source software : competition with a public good

Atal, Vidya; Shankar, Kameshwari - In: Atlantic economic journal : AEJ 42 (2014) 3, pp. 333-345

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KDE im Kontext : Open Source Software Entwicklung und öffentliche Güter

Brand, Andreas; Holtgrewe, Ursula - In: Wissensökonomie und Innovation : Beiträge zur …, (pp. 371-400). 2010

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