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Relaxing Bertrand Competition: Capacity Commitment Beats Quality Differentiation.
Boccard, N.; Wauthy, X. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1999
Both product differentiation through quality and capacity commitment have been shown to relax price competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779424
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Monopolistic Competition, Multiproduct Firms and Optimum Product Diversity.
Ottaviano, G.I.P.; Thisse, J.-F. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1999
firms. First, it develops a quadratic utility model of monopolistic competition with horizontal product differentiation …-product firms showing how product diversity is affected with respect to monopolistic competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779523
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European Antidumping Policy and Firms' Srategic Choice of Quality.
Vandenbussche, H.; Wauthy, X. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1999
-stages model with quality choice made before price competition takes place, the authors show that EU antidumping policy that takes … the form of price-undertaking offers a powerful protection to domestic firms, but only at the price competition stage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669221
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On the nature of price competition under universal service obligations: a note
GAUTIER, Axel; WAUTHY, Xavier - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550175
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Regulating quality by regulating quantity : a case against minimum quality standards
BOCCARD, Nicolas; WAUTHY, Xavier - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2009
-product, our analysis makes a contribution to the study of Bertrand-Edgeworth competition in a market with differentiated products. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550220
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Market coverage and the nature of product differentiation : a note
WAUTHY, Xavier - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2009
In this note, we analyze the equilibrium outcomes of pricing games with product differentiation in relation with the extent of market coverage. It is a received idea in the IO literature that the horizontal and vertical models of product differentiation are almost formally equivalent. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550225
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Import restraints and quality choice under vertical differentiation
BOCCARD, Nicolas; WAUTHY, Xavier - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1998
choose their quality level before engaging a price competition. We first show that the indirect effect of the quota on the … domestic government reduces the price competition and enables both firms to upgrade to the highest possible quality level for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008229
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On strategic complementarity conditions in Bertrand oligopoly
AMIR, Rabah; GRILO, Isabel - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2001
For Bertrand duopoly with linear costs, we establish via a single counterexample that: (i) A new monotone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008240
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Price competition when consumer behavior is characterized by conformity or vanity.
GRILO, Isabel; SHY, Oz; THISSE, Jacques-François - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1997
unclear. To investigate them, we propose to graft the consumption externality model onto the spatial duopoly model. When … the other extreme, when vanity is at work, price competition is relaxed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008390
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Competition, incomplete discrimination and versioning
DIAW, Khaled; POUYET, Jerome - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2004
that, sometimes, firms prefer partial to full discrimination to soften competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008502