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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