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This paper investigates the strategic effect of bundling when a multi-product firm producing two complements faces … competition in both markets. I consider a demand structure where both Cournot and Bertrand competition can be evaluated. Bundling … by the multi-product firm. Bundling drives prices up, and not only consumer surplus, but also social welfare shrinks …
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oligopoly with competing suppliers, each selling multiple products indirectly through a pool of multiple competing retailers or …
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We investigate mergers in markets where quality differences between products are central and firms may reposition their product lines by adding or removing products of different qualities following a merger. Such mergers are materially different from those studied in the existing literature....
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We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know neither. We show that two types of signalling...
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The unprecedented access of firms to consumer level data facilitates more precisely targeted individual pricing. We study the incentives of a data broker to sell data about a segment of the market to three competing firms. The segment only includes a share of the consumers in the market around...
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We empirically test the hypothesis that the discounts offered by firms to consumers who purchase tickets in advance increase with the intensity of competition. We develop a new measure of competition for which we use the proximity (in departure time) of a given flight to its competitors to infer...
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