Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/32251 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2009,32
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper studies the incentives for production cost disclosure in an asymmetric Cournot duopoly. Whereas the efficient firm (consumers) prefers information sharing (concealment) when the firms choose accommodating strategies in the product market, the firm (consumers) may prefer information concealment (sharing) when it can exclude its competitor from the market. Hence, the rankings of expected profit and consumer surplus can be reversed if exit of the inefficient firm is possible. Although the efficient firm has stronger incentives to share information when it shares strategically, there remain cases in which the firm conceals information in equilibrium to induce exit.
Subjects: 
Cournot duopoly
information disclosure
exit
cost asymmetry
precommitment
JEL: 
D82
L13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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