Posada, Pedro (2001) Leadership cartels in industries with differentiated products. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick, Department of Economics. Warwick economic research papers (No.590).
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Abstract
This article analyses cartels that act as a Stackelberg leader with respect to a competitive fringe in industries supplying differentiated products. The main objectives are to investigate how cartel stability changes with the degree of differentiation and the cartel size, to predict endogenous cartels and to carry out a welfare analysis. Both repeated and static games are considered as well as industries competing in quantities and prices. The results indicate that the degree of stability can be either an increasing, decreasing or non-monotonic function of the degree of product differentiation, depending on the cartel size, the industry size, the competition type and the reaction of cartel loyal members to defection. An endogenous cartel size is also predicted. Other significant results are: some cartels can be sustained under simple static game Nash equilibrium, some cartels may be socially desirable, not all cartels are beneficial for the fringe members and a free riding problem does not necessarily emerge.
| Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory Q Science > QA Mathematics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cartels, Equilibrium (Economics), Product differentiation, Competition, Games of strategy (Mathematics) |
| Series Name: | Warwick economic research papers |
| Publisher: | University of Warwick, Department of Economics |
| Place of Publication: | Coventry |
| Official Date: | 5 June 2001 |
| Dates: | Date Event 5 June 2001 Published |
| Number: | No.590 |
| Number of Pages: | 31 |
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons open licence) |
| Funder: | Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico) [Mexican Council for Science and Technology] (CONACYT) |
| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1588/ |
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