Brandão, António; Pinho, Joana - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2010
We introduce asymmetric information about consumers' transportation costs (i.e., the degree of product differentiation … of perfect information. Contrarily, both firms may prefer the asymmetric information case if the transportation costs are … remain uninformed). Information sharing is ex-ante advantageous for the firms, but ex-post damaging in the case of low …