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Mergers and Dynamic Oligopoly [PDF]
Static oligopoly theories disagree on whether mergers are profitable. The Cournot model says that many potential mergers would be unprofitable whereas the Bertrand model says that all mergers are profitable.
Kwang Soo Cheong, Kenneth L Judd
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Strategic delegation and risk‐taking in R&D: Partial delegation versus full delegation
International Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 22, Issue 2, Page 183-207, June 2026.Abstract We examine firm's risk‐taking decisions in R&D under two different delegation strategies between partial delegation (PD) and full delegation (FD): FD authorizes both quantity and R&D risk but PD only authorizes quantity. Cournot firms under the FD set higher profit weights at the expected value of cost realization, which can lessen competition,
Mingqing Xing, Sang‐Ho Lee
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Cost Arrangement and Welfare in a Multi-Product Cournot Oligopoly [PDF]
Welfare in a two-product Cournot oligopoly is shown to increase (decrease) with an increase in correlation between unit costs when the outputs complement (substitute) in demand.
Hennessy, David A., Lapan, Harvey E.
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Corporate social responsibility and privatization policy in a mixed oligopoly
JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS, 2019 Seung-Leul Kim +2 more
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Strategic environmental corporate social responsibility in a vertically differentiated duopoly
International Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 22, Issue 2, Page 214-236, June 2026.Abstract We investigate firms' strategic incentives to adopt environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) in the presence of quality–cost differences within a vertically differentiated duopoly. We find that (i) the low‐quality firm chooses a higher (lower) ECSR level than the high‐quality firm when the low‐quality firm has a relatively more ...
Mingqing Xing, Sang‐Ho Lee
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Patents and Supra‐Competitive Prices: Evidence From Consumer Products
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 172-204, June 2026.ABSTRACT A patent system is a central tool in innovation policy. The prospect of monopolistic pricing supposedly encourages firms to innovate. However, there is scant empirical evidence supporting the existence of higher markups for patent‐protected products.
Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Ling Zhou
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SEASONAL OLIGOPOLY POWER IN THE D'ANJOU PEAR INDUSTRY
We estimate seasonal oligopoly power at a disaggregated variety level in the D'Anjou pear market. Our data spans 1993 to 2000, during which time imported pears became more prevalent in the U.S. market.
Winfree, Jason A. +3 more
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Mixed oligopoly and the choice of capacity [PDF]
We analyze the capacity choice of firms under different time structures in a mixed oligopoly market, in which firms decide not only production quantities but also capacity scales.
Yuanzhu Lu, Sougata Poddar
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Influence of rationality levels on dynamics of heterogeneous Cournot duopolists with quadratic costs. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Li X, Jiang Y.
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Trade Patterns in an International Mixed Oligopoly [PDF]
Developing a two-country model of international mixed oligopoly, this note makes clear the determinant of trade patterns. We give a simple formula to predict bilateral patterns of trade which relates the degree of a country's privatization and the ...
Kenji Fujiwara
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