- 著者
- 酒井 泰弘 Yasuhiro Sakai
- 雑誌
- 経済学論究 = The journal of economics of Kwansei Gakuin University (ISSN:02868032)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.73, no.3, pp.1-25, 2019-12-20
- 著者
- YASUHIRO SAKAI TAKEHIKO YAMATO
- 出版者
- JAPANESE ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
- 雑誌
- The Economic Studies Quarterly (ISSN:0557109X)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.41, no.1, pp.48-64, 1990-03-20 (Released:2008-02-28)
- 参考文献数
- 13
This paper deals with the welfare implications of information sharing between Bertrandtype duopolists when there is cost uncertainty. The paper distinguishes itself from the previous work in that it is not restricted to those special cases where goods are physically substitutes or costs are stochastically independent, and in that it carries out a complete analysis of the impact of information pooling on consumers and the society as a whole. In particular, by introducing new concepts such as the variation and allocation effects, we point out the possibility that the exchange of cost information is beneficial to Bertrand firms. Comparison with the more popular Cournot duopoly case is also made.