国际经贸学院陶爱元博士与合作者撰写的文章“On comparing the profitability of horizontal mergers under Cournot and Bertrand competitions”被期刊Managerial and Decision Economics接受并正式发表。Managerial and Decision Economics影响因子为2.2， 是一本著名的国际战略管理期刊，将经济推理应用于管理决策，以促进全球管理经济学知识的发展。

文章介绍

On comparing the profitability of horizontal mergers under Cournot and Bertrand competitions

摘要：This paper reconsiders the comparison of horizontal two-firm mergers in differentiated oligopolies, originally explored with the assumption that the merged firm produces a single product. By relaxing this assumption, our analysis presents a contrast to previous findings that suggested that a two-firm merger is more likely under the Cournot competition than under the Bertrand competition. We find that the opposite holds true if the merged firm chooses to produce one or both products post-merger. Moreover, we demonstrate that, in most circumstances, and under either the Cournot or Bertrand competition, the merged firm has an incentive to produce both products post-merger.

作者简介

陶爱元，经济学博士，硕士生导师，密苏里大学访问学者，现为上海立信会计金融学院国际经贸学院教授。研究领域涉及微观经济学、产业组织理论、数量经济学等，对经济建模和数据分析尤为感兴趣。在国内外期刊发表30余篇学术论文，多篇被SSCI、SCI收录，其中国际一流期刊5篇。讲授《商务统计学》和《计量经济学》等课程，参与和主持了国家一流本科课程《统计学》及上海市重点课程《商务统计学》和《计量经济学》的建设，主编和参编5本教材。