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Stackelberg Duopoly with an Illyrian and Profit-Maximising Firm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2016

Peter J. Law
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Geoff Stewart
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, The University Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Abstract

Illyrian labour-managed firms may have positively-inclined Cournot reaction functions. Consequently, in a “mixed” duopoly a determinate equilibrium can result in which the profit-maximising firm leads and the labour-managed firm follows. A simple example demonstrates this.

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Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales 1983 

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Footnotes

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Part of this research was undertaken while Geoff Stewart was at the University of Warwick on an SSRC Studentship.

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