72nd International Atlantic Economic Conference

October 20 - 23, 2011 | Washington, USA

305 L10-1 3802 Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance

Sunday, 23 October 2011: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Chair:
Richard T. Gretz, Bradley University—USA
Why quality may not always win: Generation life-cycles, quality, and network effects
Richard T. Gretz, Bradley University—USA; Suman Basuroy, University of Oklahoma—USA
Endogenous mergers and bargaining failures
Ramon Caminal, Institute for Economic Analysis, CSIC—Spain
The impact of patent pools on incremental invention
Nanyun Zhang, Towson University—USA; Thomas Jeistchko, Department of Justice—USA
A statistical illusion of large firm conformity to Gibrat's law
James N. Giordano, Villanova University—USA
Hotelling model with fashion-chasing effect
Yue Fang Fang, Georgia Institute of Technology—USA
Discussants:
Nanyun Zhang, Towson University—USA ; Richard T. Gretz, Bradley University—USA ; James N. Giordano, Villanova University—USA and Yue Fang Fang, Georgia Institute of Technology—USA