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A Note on Revenue‐Maximising Oligopoly

R. Clarke (Division of Economic Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)

Journal of Economic Studies

ISSN: 0144-3585

Article publication date: 1 March 1984

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Abstract

This paper considers Baumol‐type, revenue‐maximising firms in an explicit oligopoly framework. It shows, somewhat surprisingly, that, in contrast to the profit‐maximising case, an increase in firm numbers leads to an increase in market price in revenue‐maximising equilibrium.

Citation

Clarke, R. (1984), "A Note on Revenue‐Maximising Oligopoly", Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 11 No. 3, pp. 62-65. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002584

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