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Treating customers like markets: Tacit collusion and mutual forbearance in B2B oligopolies [PDF]

open access: yesProblems and Perspectives in Management
Type of the article: Research Article AbstractIn business-to-business contract markets, oligopolistic suppliers often exhibit stable pricing patterns and low customer switching rates that cannot be explained by explicit coordination.
Hagen Lindstädt, Marcus Dominik Kroth
doaj   +1 more source

Market Structure and Determinants of Firm Profitability on General Insurance Industry in Indonesia

open access: yesStudies in Business and Economics, 2021
The purpose of this study is to analyze the market structure of the general insurance industry in Indonesia and the effect of market share, operating expenses to operating income (OEOI), and debt ratio(DR) on profitability measured by return on assets ...
Arintoko   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Canada’s Entry for LNG Exports in the Asia-Pacific Market

open access: yesCommodities, 2023
The import demand for energy resources, including liquefied natural gas (LNG), has been steadily increasing in the Asia-Pacific region. Australia, the Middle East (Qatar), the Russian Federation, and the U.S.
Subhadip Ghosh, Shahidul Islam
doaj   +1 more source

Addressing Barriers to Fair Community Participation in Mangrove Carbon Credit Projects: Insights From Thailand

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Thailand has announced ambitious plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including a programme that allows private companies to earn carbon credits from protecting and restoring mangroves. In 2023, the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) began enrolling local communities and private firms in this scheme.
Danny Marks, Kittima Leeruttanawisut
wiley   +1 more source

Bilateral oligopoly [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
"Auf vielen Märkten für Zwischenprodukte verfügen beide, Käufer und Verkäufer, über Marktmacht. Die Verträge, die üblicherweise langfristig abgeschlossen und bilateral verhandelt werden, legen zahlreiche über den Preis hinausgehende Elemente fest. In diesem Beitrag werden derartige Oligopole als simultane Rubinstein-Stahl Verhandlungen über Verträge ...
Björnerstedt, Jonas, Stennek, Johan
openaire   +5 more sources

Game theory analysis in Indonesia’s shipping industry: Case study agreement between PT. X and PT. Y

open access: yesScientific Journal of Gdynia Maritime University, 2020
Nowadays, the container shipping industry in Indonesia has a tendency to oligopoly, even in one shipping route. Two big shipping liners in Indonesia, PT. X and PT. Y, have been dominating sales on the Surabaya-Banjarmasin route.
Heru Susanto
doaj   +1 more source

Wholesale Markets as Governance Entities: Institutional Coordination of Trader Marketing in Nigerian Agri‐Food Markets

open access: yesJournal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Coordinated marketing activities can be an important mechanism for negotiating prices and reducing transaction and transportation costs in food supply chains. Yet there are few studies on the prevalence and drivers of the choice of undertaking coordinated marketing by food wholesale markets.
Daniel A. Babalola   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coping Practices of Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises Facing Power Asymmetry in Digital Platform Business

open access: yesStrategic 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
wiley   +1 more source

Demand‐Driven Mergers: Advertising, Differentiation, and Welfare

open access: yesManagerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We consider mergers that induce demand changes. We study the firms' incentives to submit a merger request and the competition authority's decision to approve the request. We show that merger‐induced demand changes help expand settings where the interests of firms and competition authority align, whereas contexts where their interests are ...
Felix Munoz‐Garcia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Excessive entry in a bilateral oligopoly [PDF]

open access: yes
In a bilateral oligopoly, Ghosh and Morita (‘Social desirability of free entry: a bilateral oligopoly analysis, 2007, IJIO) show that entry is always socially insufficient if the upstream agents have sufficiently strong bargaining power.
Arijit Mukherjee
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