Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]
IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/pur/prukra/1250.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Knowing Versus Telling Private Information About a Rival

Author

Listed:
  • Mark Bagnoli
  • Susan G. Watts
Abstract
As part of a broad competitive intelligence strategy, firms expect to acquire information about their rivals customers and production processes. In this study, we examine the firms incentives to disclose this information. We find that firms adopt a policy of disclosing their information regardless of whether it concerns a rival s customers or production costs or whether the firms are Cournot or Bertrand competitors. Firms that have private information about their rivals tell. Their willingness to disclose private information about their rivals contrasts with the results in the literature when the firm has information about itself. This literature shows that the chosen disclosure policy depends on whether information is about the firm s own payoffs or industry demand and whether the firms strategies are substitutes or complements.

Suggested Citation

  • Mark Bagnoli & Susan G. Watts, 2010. "Knowing Versus Telling Private Information About a Rival," Purdue University Economics Working Papers 1250, Purdue University, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:pur:prukra:1250
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://business.purdue.edu/research/Working-papers-series/2010/1250.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    disclosure policy; voluntary disclosure; asymmetric information; Cournot competition; Bertrand competition;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
    • M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pur:prukra:1250. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Business PHD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/kspurus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.