Statistical moments analysis of production and welfare in multi-product Cournot oligopoly
dc.contributor.author | Lapan, Harvey | |
dc.contributor.author | Hennessy, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Lapan, Harvey | |
dc.contributor.department | Economics | |
dc.contributor.department | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development | |
dc.date | 2018-02-17T22:18:06.000 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-30T02:05:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-30T02:05:01Z | |
dc.date.copyright | Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 2007 | |
dc.date.issued | 2008-03-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | <p>Our context involves N Cournot oligopolists producing M products at constant marginal costs when preferences are quasilinear. We identify relationships between second moments of unit costs and second moments of firm-level production. For example, a larger variance in unit costs of a product increases own output variance and the variance of any other output. We also investigate how second moments of unit costs affect industry cost efficiency. Industry costs can rise if the wrong firm secures a cost reduction. For quadratic preferences, it is shown that Zhao's (Zhao, J., 2001. A characterization for the negative welfare effects of cost reduction in Cournot oligopoly. International Journal of Industrial Organization 19, 455–469 (3–4, March)) share criteria for an increase in unit costs to increase welfare extend to the multi-product setting.</p> | |
dc.description.comments | <p>This is a manuscript of an article from <em>International Journal of Industrial Organization</em> 26 (2008): 598, doi: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2007.04.007" target="_blank">10.1016/j.ijindorg.2007.04.007</a>. Posted with permission.</p> | |
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dc.identifier | archive/lib.dr.iastate.edu/econ_las_pubs/157/ | |
dc.identifier.articleid | 1156 | |
dc.identifier.contextkey | 9131096 | |
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dc.identifier.submissionpath | econ_las_pubs/157 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/21341 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.source.bitstream | archive/lib.dr.iastate.edu/econ_las_pubs/157/2008_Lapan_StatisticalMoments.pdf|||Fri Jan 14 20:45:11 UTC 2022 | |
dc.source.uri | 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2007.04.007 | |
dc.subject.disciplines | Econometrics | |
dc.subject.disciplines | Industrial Organization | |
dc.subject.disciplines | Other Economics | |
dc.subject.keywords | Complementarity | |
dc.subject.keywords | Covariance matrix | |
dc.subject.keywords | Heterogeneous costs | |
dc.subject.keywords | Innovation | |
dc.title | Statistical moments analysis of production and welfare in multi-product Cournot oligopoly | |
dc.type | article | |
dc.type.genre | article | |
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