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Competing or Colluding in a Stochastic Environment

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Adriana Breccia
Héctor Salgado Banda
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This document analyses collusion by innovative firms and the role of patents in a continuous-time real options framework. A patent-investment race model is formulated in which innovative firms bargain and reach collusive agreements. It is shown that, while collusion always delays innovation, it does not necessarily delay competition. Depending on a number of factors, collusion can actually accelerate competition.

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Paper provided by Banco de México in its series Working Papers with number 2005-04.

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Keywords: Bargaining; Collusion; Competition; Geometric Brownian motion; Nash axiomatic approach; Stackelberg game;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
K4 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior
L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets

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