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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Duopoly"”.
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Information transmission in dynamic Bayesian duopoly models
"In economic models in which agents are asymmetrically informed about the structural parameters of the economy the acquisition or manipulation of information plays a crucial role. The incentive to affect the flow of information is especially important in models in which choice variables, and hence …
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Strategic decisions under uncertainty: Supplier quality improvement and exit in duopoly
This dissertation consists of three interrelated essays on firm-level decision problems when the exterior environment (e.g. product quality or market prospect) is uncertain and there are strategic interactions with other firms (e.g. competitors). The first essay (Chapter 2) studies a buyer’s …
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Analysis of the dynamics of duopoly models under state feedback advertising policies with switching
… advertising policies in a proposed class of duopoly dynamic models, inspired on the classical Vidale-Wolfe model. A basic assumption is that the firm with a lower market share than its target market share level switches on an extra control effort in its attempt to reach and surpass its …
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Strategic models of industrial exit : theory and a study of U.S. duopoly newspaper markets
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1989.
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Modeling and analysis of market share dynamics in a duopoly subject to affine feedback advertising policies and delays
… and Lanchester models for market share duopoly dynamics. The novelties in the proposed extensions are the explicit introduction of a set of undecided clients into existing models, which consider only the sets of clients of the two competing firms, as well as the use of decentralized …
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Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) attempts to break the Airbus-Boeing duopoly, will it succeed? : an industry analysis framework applied
… (Comac) is likely to break the Boeing-Airbus duopoly in the industry of large commercial airplanes. The selected framework for this thesis is comprised by the following two principles: 1) "The nature and degree of competition in an industry hinge on five forces, one of these being the Threat …
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On the effect of competition and strategic consumer behavior in revenue management
… policies arising in a two-period monopoly and duopoly settings, we find that strategic consumer behavior inflicts larger losses to a duopoly than to a monopoly. A lower strategic consumers’ discounting factor, which is beneficial to a monopoly, may be harmful to a duopoly. Ignoring strategic …
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Open vs. closed Apple music distribution platform
… are investigated: (i) monopoly, (ii) open duopoly (iii) closed duopoly. Using game theory, comparative results of prices, profits, consumer surplus and social welfare among the three regimes are presented. The second model focuses on the effects of competition and compatibility between a …
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Three essays in imperfect competition, political economy and international trade
… Chapter 3, Advertising in a differentiated duopoly and its policy implications for an open economy, we develop a model of advertising in a differentiated duopoly in which firms first decide how much to invest in cooperative or predatory advertising and then engage in product market …
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LCD, low-temperature soldering and compound semiconductor : the sources, market, applications and future prospects of indium in Malaysia
… the business model for global indium market is duopoly or oligopoly but obviously not monopoly. Between duopoly and oligopoly, the most probable model is oligopoly. Thus, the potential competitors and partnership are also discussed here. Besides, LCD and low-temperature soldering and compound …
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Essays on cartels stability under antitrust policies
… (Bertrand ’s) horizontally differentiated duopoly model, we conclude that antitrust enforcement is more effective on cartel stability when products are highly differentiated. However, it should be noted that antitrust enforcement negatively affects cartel stability — regardless of the degree …
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International trade policy, oligopoly and learning-by-doing (with applications to the international aircraft industry)
… implications for international trade under duopoly with learning effects and to examine under what assumptions of strategy adopted by the rival will result in trade disputes. Interestingly, the adoption of a "tit-for-tat" strategy can be claimed by a government to achieve free trade. In this …
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Investment Strategies under Uncertainty: Theory and evidence of preemption in case of geographical market entrance
… optimal market entry timing and firm values. The duopoly model shows the existence of three types of equilibrium strategies and expresses the critical level of asymmetry which separates the equilibrium regions. The analysis proves that the softer competition does not force the stronger firm to …
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Information Structures in Nash and Leader-Follower Strategies
… coordination problems and two market models of duopoly with this type of information structure are extensively analyzed and examined. Finally, sufficient conditions for existence of the solutions of both the stochastic optimal coordination problem with decision-dependent information structure …
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Vertical integration and sabotage : evidence and regulation
… market structures, differentiated goods Bertrand duopoly and the dominant firm competitive fringe model. We find that concerns for sabotage are real as it does occur in these regulated industries. We also find that the regulator faces a trade-off between reducing the double markup problem by …
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Enhancing the Shared Mobility Market: Dissolving Market Segmentation and Understanding Market Friction
… switching and multi-homing costs in a platform duopoly using public and limited high-level survey data in a shared mobility market with a transportation network company duopoly. Estimated costs are sizeable, and reductions in multi-homing and switching costs significantly affect platform market …
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Targeted persuasive advertising
… considers the use of targeted advertising in duopoly, when one of the firms does not have access to advertising. I find that advertising will target those consumers most likely to switch to the non-advertising firm. Each firm sets a price just high enough to capture the consumers on either …
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