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The Optimal Bribe: Price Versus Quantity Competition in Oligopolies

The Manchester School, EarlyView.
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

Cross‐Ownership and Endogenous R&D Risk in Cournot Triopoly

The Manchester School, EarlyView.
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

Regulatory Context and Bureaucratic Policy Making: Illustrations From Payment System Regulation in Brazil

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how bureaucratic strategies for structuring the policy environment shape regulatory outcomes, focusing on the extent to which agencies achieve their original policy preferences. Drawing on resource dependence theory and bureaucratic politics, we conceptualize the policy environment in two dimensions: internal ...
João Pedro Haddad, Lauro Emilio Gonzalez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Nonlinear Duopoly Games with Product Differentiation: Stability, Global Dynamics, and Control

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2017
Many researchers have used quadratic utility function to study its influences on economic games with product differentiation. Such games include Cournot, Bertrand, and a mixed-type game called Cournot-Bertrand. Within this paper, a cubic utility function
S. S. Askar, A. Al-khedhairi
doaj   +1 more source

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

Privatization and Optimum-Welfare in an International Cournot Duopoly [PDF]

Managing Global Transitions, 2017
In this paper, we will analyse the relationship between privatization of a public firm and tax revenue for the domestic government in an international competition, with import tariffs.
Fernanda A. Ferreira
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Do Environmental Certifications Pay? A Bibliometric and Systematic Review of Environmental Management Systems and Eco‐Label Impacts

Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 4459-4483, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how environmental certifications—specifically, formal environmental management systems (EMSs) (ISO 14001, EMAS), and consumer‐facing eco‐labels—influence firm financial performance. Using a dual approach that includes a bibliometric review and a systematic analysis of key studies, we identify key trends, theoretical ...
Alberto Citterio
wiley   +1 more source

Endogenous timing in a mixed duopoly model

Journal of Economics, 2014
Xunta de Galicia ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Endogenous Competition Strategies With R&D in a Vertically Mixed Market Under Forward Passive Ownership

The Manchester School, Volume 94, Issue 2, Page 234-248, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines endogenous choices of competition strategies in a vertically related mixed market in which an integrated public firm and a downstream firm, subject to forward passive ownership (FPO) by an input supplier, may engage in R&D investment.
Lili Xu, Yidan Zhang, Sang‐Ho Lee
wiley   +1 more source

A COURNOT-BERTRAND MODEL USING VARIOUS PRODUCTS [PDF]

Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2019
Imperfect competition represent a known issue on modern economic analysis. Monopoly case classical induce a worse solution for consumer side but in the oligopoly competition scenario it will be possible to obtain a solution close to perfect competition ...
RUSESCU Ciprian
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