Endogenous Timing in a Mixed Oligopoly with Foreign Competitors: the Linear Demand Case

Abstract

We introduce foreign private firms into the model of Pal (1998) and investigate the impact of the introduction of foreign private firms on the endogenous timing in a mixed oligopoly in the linear demand case.We find that the public firm chooses to be a follower of all domestic private firms and that the public firm chooses not to be a leader of all foreign private firms, which is in contrast to Matsumura (2003).mixed oligopoly, endogenous timing, foreign competitors