Excessive Privatization in an International Mixed Oligopoly: Normative View

Lihua Han

School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University, Jinan, China.

DOI: 10.4236/tel.[phone]                

Abstract

This paper analyzes a mixed oligopoly model with two countries each with public and private firms competing in a third country market. We formulate a third country model often used in the field of international trade, and show that there is excessive privatization if the governments adopt the degree of privatization as a policy device.

Keywords

Public Firms, International Mixed Duopoly, Privatization

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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