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Competition and the hold-up problem: a setting with non exclusive contracts
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2014-03-26
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Toulouse School of Economics
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Abstract
This work studies how the introduction of competition to the side of the market offering
trading contracts affects the equilibrium investment profile in a bilateral investment game.
By using a common agency framework, where contracts are not exclusive, we find that the
equilibrium investment profile depends on the competitiveness of the equilibrium outcome.
Full efficiency can only be implemented when the trading outcome is the most competitive.
Moreover, lowering the outcome competitiveness is not always Pareto dominant for the parties offering the contracts, and larger social welfare can be obtained with low competitive
equilibria.
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Hold-up , Bilateral investment , Common agency , Competition , Welfare
