Volume 5, No. 3, December 2006

 

Financial Predation by the "Weak"

Spiros Bougheas

School of Economics, University of Nottingham, U.K.

Saksit Thananittayaudom

Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Abstract

We consider a Stackelberg game, where a financially constrained leader competes with a "deep pocket" follower, and analyze the trade-off between a financial and a strategic advantage for both the design of financial contracts and market structure.

Key words: predation; financial contracts; Stackelberg game
JEL classification: G32; G43

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