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Managers and students playing Cournot - evidence from duopoly and triopoly experiments

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  • Israel Waichman
  • Till Requate
  • Ch'ng Kean Siang

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This article reports results from Cournot duopoly and triopoly experiments with different subject pools: German students, Malaysian students and Malaysian managers. We find that Malaysian managers perform significantly more collusively than Malaysian students. We also find that country matters insofar as German students perform significantly more collusively than their Malaysian counterparts.

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  • Israel Waichman & Till Requate & Ch'ng Kean Siang, 2011. "Managers and students playing Cournot - evidence from duopoly and triopoly experiments," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(2), pages 115-120.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:18:y:2011:i:2:p:115-120
    DOI: 10.1080/13504850903442988
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