Search for dissertations about: "duopoly"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the word duopoly.
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1. Quality provision in duopoly
Abstract : This dissertation comprises three essays revisiting the classical topic of quality provision in a duopoly. Two essays consider a situation in which consumers cannot identify the origin of an individual product but observe or infer the average quality of the units brought to the market: Chapter 2 studies the case where the two producers bargain over a minimum quality standard before deciding about their own quality level, while Chapter 3 deals with the case where qualities are (exogenously) fixed and producers have to decide about the quantity they will offer for sale. READ MORE
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2. Worker Safety and Market Dynamics
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3. Essays on Negotiation and Renegotiation in Bertrand Games
Abstract : This licentiate thesis consists of three separate papers that investigate the effects of negotiation and renegotiation in Bertrand games. The first paper investigates collusion in an infinitely repeated Bertrand duopoly where firms have different discount factors. READ MORE
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4. Bargaining and Communication in Games
Abstract : Chapter 2 investigates an infinitely repeated Bertrand duopoly where firms with different discount factors bargain over which collusive price and market share to implement. The bargaining is modelled as a strategic game and the main results of the paper is that it shows existence of a unique subgame perfect equilibrium and that the least patient firm's equilibrium market share is not monotone in its own discount factor. READ MORE
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5. Economically Optimal Values and Decisions in Iranian Forest Management
Abstract : Stumpage price processes are estimated via regression analysis (with alternative autoregressive models) with data from the Iranian Caspian forests. The parameter estimates indicate that the stumpage price may be regarded as a stationary stochastic process. The optimal harvest decisions were calculated via stochastic dynamic programming. READ MORE