This research revisits the theoretical literature on codetermination in differentiated Cournot duopoly markets. Although codetermination is widely adopted in some north European countries, the theoretical analysis is restricted to a few number of works. The literature is led by Kraft (1998), who shows that codetermination emerges as a market outcome (sub-optimal Nash equilibrium) in a quantity-setting duopoly with homogeneous products. However, there exists evidence that codetermination is quite absent in countries where there are no specific laws. This article shows that codetermination cannot emerge as a Nash equilibrium when products are sufficiently differentiated (even when they are complementary). These results also hold by considering R&D activities.
Codetermination and product differentiation / Fanti, Luciano; Gori, Luca; Sodini, Mauro. - In: INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS & FINANCE. - ISSN 1059-0560. - 58:(2018), pp. 390-403. [10.1016/j.iref.2018.05.001]
Codetermination and product differentiation
Mauro Sodini
2018
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This research revisits the theoretical literature on codetermination in differentiated Cournot duopoly markets. Although codetermination is widely adopted in some north European countries, the theoretical analysis is restricted to a few number of works. The literature is led by Kraft (1998), who shows that codetermination emerges as a market outcome (sub-optimal Nash equilibrium) in a quantity-setting duopoly with homogeneous products. However, there exists evidence that codetermination is quite absent in countries where there are no specific laws. This article shows that codetermination cannot emerge as a Nash equilibrium when products are sufficiently differentiated (even when they are complementary). These results also hold by considering R&D activities.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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