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This paper considers the optimal pricing and diffusion of a durable good that exhibits positive network externalities, when consumers are heterogeneous with respect to their expectations about future network sizes. We consider the existence of naive consumers, as well as of sophisticated...
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This paper studies the optimal pricing and diffusion of durable goods that exhibit positive network externalities, when consumers are heterogeneous in their expectations about future network sizes. We consider the existence of naive consumers, as well as of sophisticated consumers having...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015262025
This paper reformulates and simplifies a recent model by Heidhues and Koszegi (2005), which in turn is based on a behavioral model due to Koszegi and Rabin (2006). The model analyzes optimal pricing when consumers are loss averse in the sense that an unexpected price hike lowers their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015220857
Does free entry result in the socially preferred order of market entry for heterogeneous firms? This paper examines the welfare effects of sequential market entry by using a simple entry-deterrence model with heterogeneities in fixed and variable production costs among firms. In particular, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015221631
We propose both a monopoly and a duopoly model of a two-sided market. Both settings are fully comparable, as we impose … sizes. We determine the duopoly equilibrium and the monopoly optimum in terms of the parameters and obtain solutions with … economically plausible parameter sets for which duopoly equilibrium prices exceed optimal monopoly prices and one with no …
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platform operators is identical in monopoly and duopoly. Nevertheless, total demand on both market sides in the duopoly market … exceeds total demand in the monopoly market. Furthermore, even though there is no observable price effect, there is still a … competitive effect that becomes manifest in total duopoly equilibrium profits being strictly smaller than monopoly profits. The …
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We study general discrete-types multidimensional screening without any noticeable restrictions on valuations, using instead epsilon-relaxation of the incentive-compatibility constraints. Any active (becoming equality) constraint can be perceived as "envy" arc from one type to another, so the set...
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Does free entry result in the socially preferred order of market entry for heterogeneous firms? This paper examines the welfare effects of sequential market entry by using a simple entry-deterrence model with heterogeneities in fixed and variable production costs among firms. In particular, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015227189
The article present a brief analyze of theoretical virtues of free competition in relation with some visible limits and negative consequences observed in real economic life. Social intervention to correct (at least in part) those social failures and the new responses of the firms are discussed...
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all platforms or a “pure” monopoly with just one platform. Literature has not generally discussed, which benchmark is the …
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