Traditional oligopoly models hold that firms compete in the same strategic variable, output
(Cournot) or price (Bertrand). Alternatively, a hybrid model allows some firms to compete in …

This research analyses firms' strategic choice of adopting an abatement technology in an
environment with pollution externalities when the government levies an emission tax to …

This paper demonstrates that the standard conclusions regarding the comparison of Cournot
and Bertrand competition are reversed in a vertically related market with upstream monopoly …

We revisit the classic comparison between Bertrand and Cournot outcomes in a mixed
market with private and public firms. The results are often strikingly different and opposite to …

This paper analyzes the noncooperative game on the choice of strategic variable to set in
duopoly in the presence of an upstream market for the input. For the case of labor input, the …

We analyse the dynamics of a Cournot duopoly with heterogeneous players to investigate
the effects of micro-founded differentiated products demand on stability. The present study …

We study a set of bilateral Nash bargaining problems between an upstream input supplier
and several differentiated but competing retailers. If one bilateral bargain fails, the supplier …

In this paper, we analyze the influence of the delegation of downstream firms that produce
different quality of products on the profits, consumer surplus and social welfare in a vertically …

I analyze the effects of downstream competition when there is bargaining between
downstream firms and upstream agents (firms or unions). When bargaining is over a uniform …

We study the dynamics of a duopoly game à la Bertrand with horizontal product
differentiation as proposed by Zhang et al.(2009)[35] by introducing opportune …