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Objective and subjective product differentiation in a Cournot duopoly

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Cournot duopoly is a mathematical model of an imperfectly competitive market, where two profit maximizing firms simultaneously choose the quantities of product to produce, considering each other's behavior.
João Plínio Juchem Neto, Jorge Paulo de Araújo, Martin Wiehe   +2 more
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Quantity Precommitment and Cournot and Bertrand Models with Complementary Goods [PDF]

International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, 2017
This paper investigates Cournot and Bertrand duopoly models with complementary goods, where firms can enter into lifetime employment contracts with their respective workers as a strategic device.
Kazuhiro Ohnishi
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Strategic Interaction and International Trade: The case of the Steel Industry

East Asian Economic Review, 2000
The purpose of this study is to analyze strategic interaction and intra-industry trade. We derive an oligopolistic model of intra-industry trade, which is initially proposed by Brander(1981).
Eui-Hyun Choi
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Mutual Outsourcing in a Vertically Related Market With Strategic Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility

The Manchester School, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study considers mutual outsourcing firms in a vertically related market and examines their strategic adoption of environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) activities. We demonstrate that ECSR adoption reduces mutual outsourcing firms' profits, resulting in a prisoner's dilemma situation, but enhances welfare regardless of ...
Lili Xu, Xinying Fan, Sang‐Ho Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Unilateral Decisions to Hire Managers in Markets with Capitalist and Labor-Managed Firms [PDF]

International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, 2018
This paper examines the equilibrium outcomes of firms’ decision games to hire managers when there is a capitalist firm competing against a labor-managed firm.
Kazuhiro Ohnishi
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Consumers' Environmental Awareness and Firms' Managerial Delegation Contracts Under Emission Tax Policies

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study considers consumers' environmental awareness of polluting firms' managerial delegation contracts and compares the effects of committed and time‐consistent emission tax policies. It reveals that when environmental performance (EP) incentives prevail, sales performance (SP) incentives depend on the emission tax type and competition ...
Lili Xu, Yuntong Yin, Sang‐Ho Lee
wiley   +1 more source

The Optimal Bribe: Price Versus Quantity Competition in Oligopolies

The Manchester School, Volume 94, Issue 4, Page 378-397, July 2026.
ABSTRACT We analyze an entry deterrence model between an incumbent firm and a potential entrant, where the incumbent strategically offers bribes to local officials to raise entry barriers. Our focus is a three‐stage Bertrand game under incomplete information in a differentiated goods market.
Vishavdeep Sharma, Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Export subsidies, countervailing duties, and welfare

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2005
Using a simple Cournot duopoly model, this paper provides an important policy implication for trade disputes involving export subsidies. In this paper, the possibility that a foreign export subsidy could benefit the domestic country as well as the ...
Yu-Ter Wang
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Cross‐Ownership and Endogenous R&D Risk in Cournot Triopoly

The Manchester School, Volume 94, Issue 4, Page 421-437, July 2026.
ABSTRACT We examine how cross‐ownership influences firms' endogenous R&D risk‐taking in a Cournot triopoly, where two “insider” firms hold passive equity stakes in each other, and a third firm remains unaffiliated. Firms invest in stochastic R&D that lowers marginal costs and choose their risk level—measured by outcome variance—prior to quantity ...
Mingqing Xing, Ally Quan Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Learning from oligopoly rivalry: Implications for business financial statements

Contabilitate şi Informatică de Gestiune, 2019
Research question: Utilizing the tenets of oligopoly competition that is a well-known type of imperfect rivalry, this study is interested in building a financial theory of inter-company price or pricing (ICP) economics and documenting its direct affinity
Mike Onder Kaymaz, Ozgur Kaymaz
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