Successive oligopolies and decreasing returns

Jean Gabszewicz () and Skerdilajda Zanaj ()

No 2008033, Discussion Papers (ECON - Département des Sciences Economiques) from Université catholique de Louvain, Département des Sciences Economiques

Abstract: In this paper we propose an example of successive oligopolies where the downstream firms share the same decreasing returns technology of the Cobb-Douglas type. We stress the differences between the conclusions obtained under this assumption and those resulting from the traditional example considered in the literature, namely, a constant returns technology

Keywords: successive oligopolies; vertical integration; technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D43 L1 L22 L42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-12-02

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