• Title of article

    Industry profits and free entry in input markets

  • Author/Authors

    Noriaki Matsushima، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    329
  • To page
    336
  • Abstract
    When upstream firms compete in quantity and freely enter the input market, competition among downstream firms reduces the input price (the marginal cost of downstream firms). The industry profits of downstream firms competing in quantity may increase with the number of downstream firms.
  • Keywords
    Cournot competition , Input markets , Free entry , Profits
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Economics Letters
  • Record number

    436087