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product differentiation and entry costs in both markets. Our analysis shows that the downstream conditions dominate the …
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transport costs. Rising competitive pressure should in turn affect incentives to differentiate products. In this paper … strategies (most likely with digital products) and quantity competition (capacity decisions for physical products). Based on … Produktdifferenzierung eigentlich erhöhen. Wir analysieren die Interaktion der Investitionsentscheidungen in transportkostensenkende …
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Consider a differentiated product market in which all consumers are fully informed about match value and price at the time they make their purchasing decision. Initially, consumers become informed about the prices of all products in the market but do not know the match values. Some consumers...
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Bertrand competition, if the firms have sufficiently flat information acquisition cost functions. For steeper cost functions …
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This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as … but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand competition. More specifically, Cournot competition can lead to earlier … adoption than Bertrand competition. It shows also that competition toughness does not always reinforce adoption incentives …
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of a duopoly it shows that: (1) a monopoly is the likely outcome of competition in homogeneous products, (2) although …
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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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In a model of vertical product differentiation, duopolistic firms face qualitydependent costs and compete in quality …' qualities in the previous period determine their costs. In an N-period game, quality standards will in fact lead to convergence …
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In this paper we show that a homogeneous-product market with multiple Bertrand equilibria becomes a market with a single Bertrand equilibrium when we introduce a small degree of product differentiation. When differentiation tends to zero, that Bertrand equilibrium converges to the unique...
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This paper examines international trade in tainted food and other low-quality products. Wefirst find that for a large class of environments, free trade is the trading system that conveysthe highest incentives to produce non-tainted high-quality goods by foreign exporters.However, free trade...
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