Bárcena-Ruiz, Juan CarlosBegoña Garzón, María2018-06-192018-06-192010-08Bárcena-Ruiz, Juan Carlos e María Begoña Garzón (2010). "Endogenous timing in a mixed oligopoly with semipublic firms". Portuguese Economic Journal, 9(2):97-1131617-982X (print)1617-9838 (online)http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/15645An endogenous order of moves is analyzed in a mixed market where a firm jointly owned by the public sector and private domestic shareholders (a semipublic firm) competes with n private firms. We show that there is an equilibrium in which firms take production decisions simultaneously. This result is strikingly different from that obtained by Pal (Econ Lett 61:181–185, 1998), who shows that when a public firm competes with n private firms all firms producing simultaneously in the same period cannot be sustained as a Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibrium outcome. Our result differs from that of Pal (Econ Lett 61:181–185, 1998) for two reasons: firstly, we consider that there is a semipublic firm rather than a public firm. Secondly, Pal (Econ Lett 61:181– 185, 1998) considers that the public firm is less efficient than private firms while in our paper all firms are equally efficient.engEndogenous timingMixed oligopolySemipublic firmsCournot competitionjournal article10.1007/s10258-010-0054-8