Arbeitspapier

Managerial Incentives and Stackelberg Equilibria in Oligopoly

The paper investigates both quantity and price oligopoly games in markets with a variable number of managerial and entrepreneurial firms which defines market structure. Following Vickers (Economic Journal, 1985) which establishes an equivalence between the equilibrium under unilateral delegation and the Stackelberg quantity equilibrium, the outcomes of these games are compared with the ones in sequential multi-leaders and multi-followers games. The profitability of a managerial/entrepreneurial attitude vs leadership/followership is shown to critically depend upon the kind of strategy, price or quantity, and upon the assumed market structure. Indeed, the latter turns out to be crucial in determining the equivalence result that is shown to be contingent on the assumption that just one leader or one managerial firm operate in the market. A welfare analysis finally highlights the differences between the delegation and the sequential games, focusing on the impact of market structure and imperfect substitutability on the equilibria of the two games.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: EERI Research Paper Series ; No. 39/2010

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Noncooperative Games
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Firm Organization and Market Structure
Thema
Strategic delegation
sequential games
quantity and price competition
welfare analysis

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Scrimitore, Marcella
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)
(wo)
Brussels
(wann)
2010

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Scrimitore, Marcella
  • Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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