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Rules of consumer protection or fair competition can be publicly or privately enforced. We consider the possibility of false advertising by a firm in duopolistic competition where consumers can be distinguished according to whether or not they form rational beliefs about the trustworthiness of...
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We consider a situation of duopolistic competition in which one firm may (falsely) advertise high product quality. Consumers are heterogeneous. One group forms rational beliefs about quality, whereas some consumers are naive and fully trust any advertisement. We compare two scenarios in which...
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Rules of consumer protection or fair competition can be publicly or privately enforced. We consider the possibility of false advertising by a firm in duopolistic competition where consumers can be distinguished according to whether or not they form rational beliefs about the trustworthiness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012317
Rules of consumer protection or fair competition can be publicly or privately enforced. We consider the possibility of false advertising by a firm in duopolistic competition where consumers can be distinguished according to whether or not they form rational beliefs about the trustworthiness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197740
We analyze the effects of better algorithmic demand forecasting on collusive profits. We show that the comparative statics crucially depend on the whether actions are observable. Thus, the optimal antitrust policy needs to take into account the institutional settings of the industry in question....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093034
We analyze firms' ability to sustain collusion in a setting in which horizontally differentiated firms can price … sustainability of collusion. Starting from a low level, an increase in signal precision first facilitates collusion. However, there … is a turning point from which on any further increase renders collusion less sustainable. Our analysis provides important …
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We analyze the effects of better algorithmic demand forecasting on collusive profits. We show that the comparative statics crucially depend on the whether actions are observable. Thus, the optimal antitrust policy needs to take into account the institutional settings of the industry in question....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990589
We analyze the effects of better algorithmic demand forecasting on collusive profits. We show that the comparative statics crucially depend on the whether actions are observable. Thus, the optimal antitrust policy needs to take into account the institutional settings of the industry in question....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177663
We analyze the effect of different pricing schemes on horizontally differentiated firms' ability to sustain collusion … that the additional price component of the two-part tariff makes it more difficult to sustain collusion. Additionally, the … pricing schedule that is most beneficial for customers in absence of collusion harms customers most in presence of (partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800464
We analyze the effects of better algorithmic demand forecasting on collusive profits. We show that the comparative statics crucially depend on the whether actions are observable. Thus, the optimal antitrust policy needs to take into account the institutional settings of the industry in question....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990230