IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/coacre/v35y2018i2p596-621.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

State‐Owned Enterprises, Competition, and Disclosure

Author

Listed:
  • Francesco Bova
  • Liyan Yang

Abstract

We develop a mixed‐duopoly model in which a private firm competes against a state‐owned enterprise (SOE) who cares about social welfare and is privately informed about market demand. When the SOE's social concerns are sufficiently important and when the market competitiveness is sufficiently low, the SOE commits to fully disclose its private information. Otherwise, the SOE commits to withhold its private information. When the disclosure equilibrium prevails, the private firm can be more profitable competing against an SOE than against another private firm. In this mixed‐duopoly setting, the equilibrium social welfare is maximized when the SOE puts a positive weight on both social welfare and its own profit. Our analysis has further implications for both mandatory disclosure and market entry. Les auteurs élaborent un modèle de duopole mixte dans lequel une société à capital fermé rivalise avec une société appartenant à l’État (SAÉ) préoccupée par le bien‐être collectif et disposant d'information privilégiée au sujet de la demande du marché. Lorsque les préoccupations sociales de la SAÉ sont suffisamment importantes et que la concurrence sur le marché est suffisamment faible, la SAÉ s'engage à communiquer toute l'information privilégiée dont elle dispose. Dans le cas contraire, la SAÉ s'efforce de garder pour elle l'information privilégiée dont elle dispose. Lorsque l’équilibre prévaut en matière de communication d'information, il peut être plus rentable pour la société à capital fermé de rivaliser avec une SAÉ qu'avec une autre société à capital fermé. Dans ce contexte de duopole mixte, le bien‐être collectif d’équilibre est maximisé lorsque la SAÉ attribue un poids positif tant au bien‐être collectif qu’à son propre profit. L'analyse des auteurs a également des incidences sur l'information obligatoire et l'entrée sur le marché.

Suggested Citation

  • Francesco Bova & Liyan Yang, 2018. "State‐Owned Enterprises, Competition, and Disclosure," Contemporary Accounting Research, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 35(2), pages 596-621, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:coacre:v:35:y:2018:i:2:p:596-621
    DOI: 10.1111/1911-3846.12412
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3846.12412
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/1911-3846.12412?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:coacre:v:35:y:2018:i:2:p:596-621. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://doi.org/10.1111/(ISSN)1911-3846 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.