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Advance Production, Inventories and Market Power: An Experimental Investigation

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  • Douglas D. Davis

    () (Department of Economics, VCU School of Business)

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This paper reports an experiment conducted to assess the effects of alterations in production conditions and product durability on market power in Bertrand-Edgeworth duopolies. Experiment results indicate that advance production increases market power in the sense that mean transaction prices increase relative to static Nash equilibrium predictions for a baseline market. In a similar way, a simple inventory option reduces market power. We also find that both advance production and inventory carryover undermine a strong tendency toward tacit collusion observed in our baseline duopoly markets.

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Paper provided by VCU School of Business, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 1001.

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Length: 27 pages
Date of creation: Feb 2010
Date of revision: Jan 2011
Handle: RePEc:vcu:wpaper:1001

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Keywords: Experiments; Bertrand-Edgeworth Competition; Advance Production; Inventory Carryover;

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