DSpace Repository

Collusion and Fights in an Experiment with Price-Setting Firms and Production in Advance

Show simple item record

dc.creator Brandts, Jordi
dc.creator Guillén, Pablo
dc.date 2007-11-05T10:31:39Z
dc.date 2007-11-05T10:31:39Z
dc.date 2004-07-15
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T00:57:52Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T00:57:52Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/1791
dc.identifier 10.1111/j.1467-6451.2007.00319.x
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/1791
dc.description Trabajo publicado como artículo en Journal of Industrial Economics 55(3): 453-473 (2007).-- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6451.2007.00319.x
dc.description We present results from 50-round market experiments in which firms decide repeatedly both on price and quantity of a completely perishable good. Each firm has capacity to serve the whole market. The stage game does not have an equilibrium in pure strategies. We run experiments for markets with two and three identical firms. Firms tend to cooperate to avoid fights, but when they fight bankruptcies are rather frequent. On average, pricing behavior is closer to that for pure quantity than for pure price competition and price and efficiency levels are higher for two than for three firms. Consumer surplus increases with the number of firms, but unsold production leads to higher efficiency losses with more firms. Over time prices tend to the highest possible one for markets both with two and three firms.
dc.description The authors thank the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (SEC2002-01352) and the Barcelona Economics Program of CREA for financial support.
dc.language eng
dc.relation UFAE and IAE Working Papers ; 618.04
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6451.2007.00319.x
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Experiments
dc.subject Oligopoly
dc.subject Collusion
dc.title Collusion and Fights in an Experiment with Price-Setting Firms and Production in Advance
dc.type Documento de trabajo


Files in this item

Files Size Format View

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

Search DSpace


Advanced Search

Browse

My Account