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(QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find …
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We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in …-inefficiency of the price/quality offers. But, better price/quality combinations are signalled with lower prices in one type and with …
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and trade in which duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented …
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and price in two segmented markets. Minimum quality standards, set according to the principle of Mutual Recognition, can …
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price discriminate while the low-quality entrant sets a uniform price. The incumbent may act as a predator, that is, it may … price below its marginal costs on a subset of consumers to induce the rival's exit. We show that the entrant may adopt an … show that when the incumbent may choose whether to price discriminate or not before the game starts, if the quality cost …
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price discriminate while the low-quality entrant sets a uniform price. The incumbent may act as a predator, that is, it may … price below its marginal costs on a subset of consumers to induce the rival's exit. We show that the entrant may adopt an … show that when the incumbent may choose whether to price discriminate or not before the game starts, if the quality cost …
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costs and quality-dependent costs of production and compete in quality and price in the domestic market. Quality …
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Hospital markets are often characterised by price regulation and the existence of different ownership types. Using a …, profits, and overall welfare in a price regulated duopoly with exogenous symmetric locations. In contrast to other studies on … driving force is the single regulated price which induces under-(over-)provision of quality of the more (less) efficient …
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Firms signal high quality through high prices even if the market structure is highly competitive and price competition … business to rival firms with higher probability. Some of the revealing equilibria involve high degree of market power (price …
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This paper examines the competition of nonprofit sickness funds in the market for supplementary health insurance. We investigate product quality strategies when quality is costly and the sickness funds are competing for customers. As long as the sickness funds choose the qualities for...
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