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Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digital platform (DP) enterprises have risen to the top of the global economy by inverting traditional business models. They earn money through matchmaking, transaction facilitation, and efficient orchestration of other stakeholders' resources.
Lukas R. G. Fitz, Jochen Scheeg
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Innovation and Green DevelopmentThis study investigates how transportation costs and environmental damage affect social welfare and the optimal degree of nationalization by assuming asymmetric mixed oligopoly markets.
Akio Kawasaki, Tohru Naito
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The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We propose a tractable model of asymmetric platform oligopoly with logit demand in which users from two distinct groups are subject to within‐group and cross‐group network effects and decide which platform to join. We characterize the equilibrium when platforms manage user access by setting participation fees for each user group.
Martin Peitz, Susumu Sato
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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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Stable Price Dispersion under Heterogeneous Buyer Consideration
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study the pricing of homogeneous products sold to customers who consider different sets of suppliers. We identify prices that are stable in the sense that no firm wishes to undercut a rival or to raise its price when rivals are able to respond by offering special deals.
David P. Myatt, David Ronayne
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Fossil Fuels and Renewable Energy: Mix or Match?
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates the influence of technological ownership on pricing strategies and productive efficiency. Our motivation comes from the evolving landscape of electricity markets where firms are transitioning from diversified to specialized portfolios, focusing on renewable energy or fossil fuels.
Natalia Fabra, Gerard Llobet
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Redistribution Through Efficiency: Theory and Evidence from Three Electricity Markets
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using micro‐data on over 160 million bids to buy and sell from three major electricity markets, we study efficiency improvements resulting from technologies such as storage. Consumer benefits arise not from stabilized prices but from changes in general price levels.
Matti Liski, Iivo Vehviläinen
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International Review of Economics & FinanceIn this study, we introduce a novel government policy tool to address environmental damage: social performance management by public firms. This study examines its impact in mixed oligopolies.
Huncheol Jeon, Hyunwoo Hong
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Search and Competition in Expert Markets
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze a model where consumers sequentially search experts for treatment recommendations and prices, facing either zero or a positive search cost, whereas experts simultaneously compete in these two dimensions. In equilibrium, experts may “cheat” by overstating the severity of a consumer's problem and recommending an unnecessary treatment,
Yiran Cao +3 more
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A Multi-Player Framework for Sustainable Traffic Optimization in the Era of Digital Transportation
InfrastructuresNowadays, traffic management challenges in the era of digital transport are rising, as the interactions of various stakeholders providing such technologies play a pivotal role in shaping traffic dynamics. The objective of this paper was to present a game-
Areti Kotsi +3 more
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