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Voluntary Quality Disclosure Under Price-Signaling Competition

Caldieraro, Fabio - 2011

We analyze an oligopolistic competition with differentiated products and qualities. The quality of a product is not …-signaling competition. There are two regimes for separating equilibrium in our model depending on the parameters. Our analysis reveals that …, in one of the separating regimes, price signaling leads to intense price competition between the firms under which not …

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The market for melons : Cournot competition with unobserval qualities

Argenton, Cédric (contributor) - 2006 - Rev. version December 2005

quantity-setting helps prevent market unraveling. -- Cournot competition ; quality ; duopoly ; asymmetric information ; Nash …

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Alliances between Competitors and Consumer Information

Garella, Paolo G.; Peitz, Martin - 2007

Alliances between competitors where an established firm provides access to its marketing and distribution channels are an important real-world phenomenon. We analyze a market where an established firm, firm A, produces a product of well-known quality, and a firm with an unknown brand, firm B,...

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Dilemma of quality information disclosure in technology licensing

Hong, Xianpei; Zhou, Menghuan; Gong, Yeming - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 294 (2021) 2, pp. 543-557

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The end of tourist traps : a natural experiment on the impact of tripadvisor on quality upgrading

Donati, Dante - 2022

Asymmetric information can distort market outcomes. I study how the online disclosure of information affects consumers' behavior and firms' incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build a model of consumer search with firms' endogenous...

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Certification and Minimum Quality Standards When Some Consumers are Uninformed

Buehler, Benno; Schuett, Florian - 2012

firms' quality choice and leads to less differentiated goods. This fuels competition and may therefore deter entry. A …

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Price Competition with Information Disparities in a Vertically Differentiated Duopoly

Cavaliere, Alberto - 2004

In this paper we extend the model of vertical product differentiation to also consider information disparities about the extent of quality differences. Equilibrium prices turn out to depend not only on the share of informed consumers but also on uninformed consumers beliefs about quality...

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