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Companies with market power occasionally engage in intentional quality reduction of a portion of their output as a means of offering two qualities of goods for the purpose of price discrimination, even absent a cost saving. This paper provides an exact characterization in terms of marginal...
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Industrial organization is mainly concerned with the behavior of large firms, especially when it comes to oligopoly theory. Experimental industrial organization therefore faces a problem: How can firms be brought into the laboratory? The main approach relies on framing: Call individuals firms!...
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The authors study pure strategy Bertrand equilibria in a duopoly in which two firms produce a homogeneous good with convex cost functions, and they seek to maximize the weighted sum of their absolute and relative profits. They show that there exists a range of the equilibrium price in...
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This paper discusses a simultaneous market entry game between two firms with different fixed costs. This case is a … enter the market. This presumption is wrong. Instead, the paper demonstrates a market entry paradox: the equilibrium … probability of entry is higher for the high-cost firm than the equilibrium probability of entry of the low-cost firm. …
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This paper demonstrates that the Bertrand paradox does not hold if cost functions are strictly convex. Instead, multiple equilibria exist which can be Pareto-ranked. The paper shows that the Pareto-dominant equilibrium may imply profus higher than in Cournot competition or may even sustain...
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author concludes that a penetration pricing strategy conducted by a third intermediary is more successful when the pre-entry …
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occur as firms' abilities as researchers change. Further, the authors observe differences in the social optimality of entry … play a role in correcting these suboptimal patterns of entry. The authors find that increasing the novelty requirement does … asymmetric case, as they can change the order of entry. …
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If a product has two dimensions of quality, one observable and one not, a firm can use observable quality as a signal of unobservable quality. The correlation between consumers' valuation of high quality in each dimension is a key determinant of the feasibility of such signaling. A firm may use...
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