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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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This paper shows how price leadership bans imposed, as part of the European Commission's State aid control, on all main mortgage providers but the largest bank shifted the Dutch mortgage market from a competitive to a collusive price leadership equilibrium. In May 2009, mortgage rates in The...
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We present a strategic game of pricing and targeted-advertising. Firms cansimultaneously target priceadvertisements to different groups of customers, or to the entiremarket. Pure strategy equilibria do not exist and thus marketsegmentation cannot occur surely. Equilibria exhibit random...
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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 the intensity of competition and estimate the impact of … competition on advance purchase discounts (APDs) and the dynamic pricing of airlines by exploiting plausibly exogenous changes in …
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Firms signal high quality through high prices even if the market structure is highly competitive and price competition … is severe. In a symmetric Bertrand oligopoly where products may differ only in their quality, production cost is …
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We consider the efficiency of Cournot and Bertrand equilibria in a duopoly with substitutable goods where firms invest … in process R&D. Under Cournot competition firms always invest more in R&D than under Bertrand competition. More … importantly, Cournot competition yields lower prices than Bertrand competition when the R&D production process is efficient, when …
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in separate stages, as then firms want to limit the toll competition by setting lower capacities; or when firms set … higher capacities. In our Stackelberg competition, the firms that act last have few if any capacity decisions to influence …. Hence, they are more concerned with the toll-competition substage, and set a higher volume/capacity ratio than sociall y …
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We posit and empirically test the hypothesis that airlines are able to charge a fare premium in markets that originate in their domestic country relative to similar markets that originate in foreign countries. To this end, we focus on intercontinental one-stop air travel trips for which the...
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allocate his resources so as to direct his competition towards particular rivals -- we call such competition selective. The … setting can be applied to a wide variety of cases: competition between firms, competition between political parties, warfare …
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