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We study competition in experimental markets in which two incumbents face entry by three other firms. Our treatments …
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Bertrand competition under decreasing returns involves a wide interval of pure strategy equilibrium prices. We first …
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We study collusive behaviour in experimental duopolies that compete in prices under dynamic demand conditions. In one treatment the demand grows at a constant rate. In the other treatment the demand declines at another constant rate. The rates are chosen so that the evolution of the demand in...
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We study the relation between the number of firms and price-cost margins under price competition with uncertainty about …
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The choice of language is a crucial decision for …rms competing in cultural goods and media markets with a bilingual or multilingual consumer base. To the extent that multilingual consumers have preferences over the intrinsic characteristics (content) as well as over the language of the...
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European and the US mobile communication services markets have developed in rather different ways. There are striking differences in termination regulation and retail pricing models and one may wonder why this occurred and whether either of the markets outperforms the other in terms of...
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competition, in the sense of generating lower average transaction prices and higher consumer surplus. This result is robust to …
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The goal of this paper is to reexamine the optimal design and efficiency of loyalty rewards in markets for final consumption goods. While the literature has emphasized the role of loyalty rewards as endogenous switching costs (which distort the efficient allocation of consumers), in this paper l...
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analysis is conducted using the spokes model of non-localized competition proposed by Chen and Riordan (2007). Firstly, we show … drastically restrict their product range in order to relax price competition, and as a result product variety is far below the …
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We propose a new model of simultaneous price competition, based on firms offering personalized prices to consumers. In … marginal cost of each firm, at their share of the market clearing quantity. Using this result for the short-run competition, we … more competitive than the Cournot model competition. Moreover, as the number of firms grows we approach the competitive …
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