Insider's Dilemma: a General Solution in a Repeated Game
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Keywords
Insider's dilemma; horizontal mergers; repeated games; stick and carrot strategy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
- L12 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Monopoly; Monopolization Strategies
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2015-07-25 (Business Economics)
- NEP-COM-2015-07-25 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-GTH-2015-07-25 (Game Theory)
- NEP-HPE-2015-07-25 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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