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The paper shows that, with any rationing mechanism between the efficient and proportional extremes, the Kreps-Scheinkman two-stage quantity-price game reduces to the Cournot model if demand is uniformly elastic and if all costs are sunk at the first stage, thus providing positive results to set against existing negative statements.
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Received: May 24, 1995; revised version: March 6, 1997
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Madden, P. Elastic demand, sunk costs and the Kreps–Scheinkman extension of the Cournot model. Economic Theory 12, 199–212 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001990050218
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001990050218