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Losses from cross-ownership due to risk aversion

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  • Gökhan Can

    (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

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This study analyzes a Cournot duopoly with two risk-averse firms facing demand uncertainty. Each firm passively holds a minority stake in the other's profits, introducing cross-ownership into a mean-variance framework. Cross-ownership reduces output and raises the expected price-cost margin. Its effect on expected total profits depends on the degree of risk aversion: with low risk aversion, expected total profits follow an inverted U-shape as cross-ownership increases; with high risk aversion, expected total profits decline. The reduction in expected total profits occurs when the rise in the expected price-cost margin fails to offset the output decline.

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  • Gökhan Can, 2025. "Losses from cross-ownership due to risk aversion," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 45(3), pages 1451-1456.
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    1. Domenico Buccella & Luciano Fanti & Luca Gori, 2025. "Cross-ownership in network industries: when less competition implies less profits or more social welfare," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 144(3), pages 203-230, April.
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      • L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
      • D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design

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