We show that concealing cost information is a dominant strategy in heterogeneous Bertrand oligopolies. This result enables us to endogenize the number of firms in a market in terms of market size, entry costs, and unit cost uncertainty.In diesem Beitrag zeigen wir, daß für ein heterogenes Oligopol die dominante Strategie der Unternehmen bei Preiswettbewerb lautet, keine Informationen über die Höhe der Produktionsstückkosten auszutauschen. Auf der Basis dieses Ergebnisses läßt sich die Anzahl der Unternehmen im Markt in Abhängigkeit vom Marktvolumen, von den Kosten des Marktzutritts und von der Unsicherheit über die Höhe der Produktionsstückkosten endogenisieren
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Focusing on homogeneous beliefs, we can distinguish two commonly shared ideas that, i) the competiti...
The paper examines incumbents’ incentives to share information in the presence of entry threat when ...
Competing firms are usually better informed about their own cost parameters than about those of thei...
As is well-known from the literature on oligopolistic competition with incomplete information, firms...
We consider a Hotelling model of price competition where firms may acquire costly information regard...
We study the relation between the number of firms and price-cost margins under price competition wit...
This paper studies the incentives for information sharing among firms in a Cournot oligopoly facing ...
We study the relation between the number of firms and price-cost margins under price competition wit...
We study the firms’ choice of whether or not to consider pieces of information concerning their inte...
"I study Cournot competition under incomplete information about demand while assuming that market pr...
A homogeneous Cournot duopoly with asymmetric information is analyzed. Every firm learns its own mar...
The question of how an efficient competitive equilibrium could be reached through a pricing mechanis...
A Cournot model of oligopoly in which otherwise identical firms have private differential informatio...
This article examines the incentives for Cournot oligopolists to share information about a common pa...
In this paper we analyse the role of asymmetric information between firms and consumers about market...
Focusing on homogeneous beliefs, we can distinguish two commonly shared ideas that, i) the competiti...
The paper examines incumbents’ incentives to share information in the presence of entry threat when ...