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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"oligopoly"”.
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Differential gaming models of oligopoly
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1987.
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Strategic oligopoly model for industrial economics
… of the MIT Sloan School of Management created an oligopoly strategy game for use in his course 15.013: Industrial Economics for Strategic Decisions. This game divided the class up into "firms" (generally consisting of two students each) and randomly formed industries, each consisting of three …
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The enforcement of collusion in oligopoly
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 1981
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The Development of The Television Network Oligopoly
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An Examination of William Fellner's Oligopoly Theory
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Price of anarchy in a Bertrand oligopoly market
… we study the price of anarchy in a Bertrand oligopoly market by comparing the total profits in the two settings. The main contribution of this thesis is a lower and an upper bound for the price of anarchy that only depends on the price sensitivity matrix characterizing the demand sellers …
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The Development of Oligopoly in The Farm Implement Industry
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Pollution Abatement Under Oligopoly With Free-Entry: Theory And Evidence
… standpoint. The reason for this is that in oligopoly models with free-entry the abatement subsidy encourages new firms into the market via higher profits thereby raising the level of total emissions in the industry, even though at the same time it lowers each firm's emissions. The …
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Welfare Effects Of Industrial Policies Under Asymmetric Oligopoly And Endogenous Quality
This dissertation investigates the impact that a duopoly of a multinational firm and local firm has on a closed economy as they engage in Bertrand competition involving quality and price. It answers the question: Does helping a minor firm reduce welfare? Using a different framework than the …
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The problems of monopoly and oligopoly in the American tobacco industry
… of the trust and the establishment of an oligopoly are covered extensively. The Lexington, Kentucky Case of 1940-1946 shows the tobacco industry again prosecuted by the government for conspiracy in restraint of trade, monopoly, and attempts to monopolize resulting in a decision against the …
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A Soft Competition Among Arbitral Institutions: The institutional oligopoly of mixed arbitration.
… treaty-based mixed arbitration constitutes an oligopoly of four institutions. Rather than from free market competition, this oligopoly emerged from a combination of factors, including brokering by international bureaucrats and arbitration experts during critical junctures, followed by …
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Efficiency-risk tradeoffs in dynamic oligopoly markets : with application to electricity markets
In an abstract framework, we examine how a tradeoff between efficiency and risk arises in different dynamic oligopolistic markets. We consider a scenario where there is a reliable resource provider and agents which enter and exit the market following a random process. Self-interested and fully …
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International trade policy, oligopoly and learning-by-doing (with applications to the international aircraft industry)
Despite the non-cooperative outcome predicted by the model of Prisoner Dilemma, throughout the history of international trade, mutual conflicts leading to an equilibrium which has the lowest joint payoffs is not so frequently observed. Trade barriers have indeed been gradually removed since the end …
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Oligopoly, regional development and the political economy of separatism, with a case study of the United Kingdom and Scotland
The present thesis aims to increase our understanding of the causes of separatism. The inspiration for this topic comes from the fact that separatist conflicts can become extremely destructive, and thus a better understanding of why they emerge may help us prevent much human suffering by pointing …
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LCD, low-temperature soldering and compound semiconductor : the sources, market, applications and future prospects of indium in Malaysia
… 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 semiconductor …
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Auctions with Variable Supply and Competing Auctioneers
… markets. The analysis concerns both monopoly and oligopoly settings. A major part of the thesis deals with equilibrium bidding in variable supply auctions – trade mechanisms in which a monopoly seller determines supply in view of the received bids. These trade mechanisms are used in a variety of …
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A Bilateral Labor Market: Salary Determinants of National Football League Quarterbacks
… each side's bargaining position. The bilateral oligopoly provides a useful way to view how salaries are determined. This thesis uses an econometric model to explore the bilateral oligopoly framework for determining quarterback salaries. Within this framework, there are a set of on-field …
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The relationship between market structure and deposit pricing : an empirical study of the local banking market
… model of bank deposit pricing behaviour under oligopoly using the methodological and conceptual guidelines of the existing studies in the literature review to determine local bank deposit pricing.
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