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Price equilibrium with selling constraints
Moraga-González, José Luis; Watanabe, Makoto - 2023
This paper studies how selling constraints, which refer to the inability of firms to attend to all the buyers who want to inspect their products, affect the equilibrium price and social welfare. We show that the price that maximizes social welfare is greater than the marginal cost. This is...
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Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market revisited
Basak, Debasmita; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2016
In a recent paper, Alipranti et al. (2014, Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market, Economics … Letters, 124: 122-126) show that in a vertically related market Cournot competition yields higher social welfare compared to … Bertrand competition if the upstream firm subsidises the quantity setting downstream firm's production via negative wholesale …
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When backward integration by a dominant firm improves welfare
Linnemer, Laurent - 2002
This paper studies the welfare consequences of a vertical merger that raises rivals costs when downstream competition …, that this result extends to price competition with differentiated products. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410253
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Competitive imperfect price discrimination and market power
Belleflamme, Paul; Lam, Wing Man Wynne; Vergote, Wouter - 2019 - This version: November 2019
Two duopolists compete in price on the market for a homogeneous product. They can ‘profile’ consumers, i.e., identify their valuations with some probability. If both firms can profile consumers but with different abilities, then they achieve positive expected profits at equilibrium. This...
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Piracy and competition
Belleflamme, Paul (contributor);  … - 2004
Bertrand-Nash equilibria in a duopoly. Comparing equilibrium prices to the prices set by a multiproduct monopolist, we show … that competition drives prices up and reduces total surplus. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002521692
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Tacit collusion under destination- and origin-based commodity taxation
Haufler, Andreas; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2000
The paper employs a standard model of dynamic price competition to study how international principles of value …-added taxation affect the stability of collusive agreements when producers in an international duopoly agree not to export into each …
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Hotelling competition with multi-purchasing : Time Magazine, Newsweek, or both?
Anderson, Simon P.; Foros, Oystein; Kind, Hans Jarle - 2010
applies more generally to duopoly pricing. -- magazine competition ; multi-purchase ; incremental pricing ; content … competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003977969
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Industry structure and pricing over the business cycle
Spiegel, Yossi; Stahl, Konrad - 2014
We consider the interaction between an incumbent firm and a potential entrant, and examine how this interaction is affected by demand fluctuations. Our model gives rise to procyclical entry, prices, and price-cost margins, although the average price in the market can be countercyclical if the...
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Fighting collusion by permitting price discrimination
Helfrich, Magdalena; Herweg, Fabian - 2016
We investigate the effect of a ban on third-degree price discrimination on the sustainability of collusion. We build a model with two firms that may be able to discriminate between two consumer groups. Two cases are analyzed: (i) Best-response symmetries so that profits in the static Nash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434582
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Price coordination in two-sided markets : competition in the TV industry
Kind, Hans Jarle; Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars - 2010
competition between the TV channels, since they take into account the fact that a lower viewer price at one channel will harm …
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