Privatization and government preferences in a mixed duopoly: Stackelberg versus Cournot

We analyse the relationship between the privatization of a public firm and government preferences for tax revenue, by considering a (sequential) Stackelberg duopoly with the public firm as the leader. We assume that the government payoff is given by a weighted sum of tax revenue and the sum of consu...

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Main Author: Ferreira, Fernanda A. (author)
Other Authors: Ferreira, Flávio (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:eng
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/4498
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:recipp.ipp.pt:10400.22/4498