Does Information about Competitors' Actions Increase or Decrease Competition in Experimental Oligopoly Markets? [Dataset]

DOI

This paper investigates the impact the publication of firm-specific data has on the competitiveness of experimental oligopoly markets. We compare two treatments: in one, firms are informed about their rivals’ actions and profits. In the other, firms are only given aggregate information about their rivals’ actions (average quantities or prices). We find that more information leads to more competition. In the treatment where aggregate information is given, we confirm the theoretical result that Bertrand markets are more competitive than Cournot markets.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.11588/data/10020
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-7187(99)00033-8
Metadata Access https://heidata.uni-heidelberg.de/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.11588/data/10020
Provenance
Creator Huck, Steffen; Normann, Hans-Theo; Oechssler, Jörg
Publisher heiDATA
Contributor Oechssler, Jörg; Huck, Steffen; Normann, Hans-Theo; HeiDATA: Heidelberg Research Data Repository
Publication Year 2014
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
OpenAccess false
Contact Oechssler, Jörg (Alfred-Weber-Institute of Economics)
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Size 39269; 220097
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Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences
Spatial Coverage Heidelberg, Germany