American Economic Review Vol. 77 No. 5 1987
Equilibrium Incentives in Oligopoly
Abstract
We examine the incentives that owners of competing firms give their managers. We show that, in equilibrium, each manager will be paid in excess of his decision's marginal profit in a Cournot-quantity game, but paid less than the marginal profit in a price game. In the Cournot case, deviations from profit maximization are reduced by ex ante cost uncertainty and increased by correlation in the firms' costs.
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 927-940
- Sources
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