Information disclosure to Cournot duopolists

Kfir Eliaz, Françoise Forges*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We show that in a standard symmetric Cournot duopoly with unknown demand, the optimal information disclosure policy of an informed benevolent planner is to fully inform one of the duopolists and disclose no information to the other one. We discuss possible extensions of the result.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)167-170
Number of pages4
JournalEconomics Letters
Volume126
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2015

Funding

FundersFunder number
Institut universitaire de France

    Keywords

    • Cournot duopoly
    • Information structure
    • Verifiable information

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