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Financial Structure, Product Market Decisions and Default Risk in an Asymmetric Duopoly

datacite.subject.fosCiências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
datacite.subject.sdg08:Trabalho Digno e Crescimento Económico
datacite.subject.sdg10:Reduzir as Desigualdades
dc.contributor.authorCosta, Magali
dc.contributor.authorPires, Cesaltina Pacheco
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-27T15:21:08Z
dc.date.available2025-05-27T15:21:08Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractFinancial and output market decisions are crucial to the success or failure of an organization. In this paper we analyze the equilibrium default risk in a two-stage duopoly model with an uncertain environment, where firms decide their financial structure in the first stage of the game and decide their quantities in the second stage of the game. Using numerical analysis, we analyze the impact of changing the asymmetry in the two firms' marginal costs on the equilibrium default risk. Our results show that as a firm becomes less efficient it is optimal to reduce its debt level and the quantity produced. The reverse is true for the more efficient firm. This behavior implies that although higher marginal cost leads to lower profits, the less efficient firm reduces its default probability due to a more cautious behavior in the financial and product market. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. All rights reserved.eng
dc.identifier.citationCosta, M., Pires, C.P. (2015). Financial Structure, Product Market Decisions and Default Risk in an Asymmetric Duopoly. In: Póvoa, A., de Miranda, J. (eds) Operations Research and Big Data. Studies in Big Data, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24154-8_6
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-319-24154-8_6
dc.identifier.isbn9783319241524
dc.identifier.isbn9783319241548
dc.identifier.issn2197-6503
dc.identifier.issn2197-6511
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/13007
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-24154-8_6#citeas
dc.relation.ispartofStudies in Big Data
dc.relation.ispartofOperations Research and Big Data
dc.rights.uriN/A
dc.subjectCapital structure
dc.subjectD43
dc.subjectDefault risk jel classification
dc.subjectG32
dc.subjectG33
dc.subjectProduct market competition
dc.titleFinancial Structure, Product Market Decisions and Default Risk in an Asymmetric Duopolyeng
dc.typebook part
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oaire.citation.endPage48
oaire.citation.startPage41
oaire.citation.titleOperations Research and Big Data
oaire.citation.volume15
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
person.familyNameCosta
person.givenNameMagali
person.identifier.orcid0000-0001-7738-504X
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