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to consumer welfare in the first few years following the merger than mergers in non-durable goods industries …, particularly if the pre-merger stock can be kept in service for a while through such things as additional maintenance. However … integration into aftermarket parts and services and the prospect of future entry can reduce the effect of the merger on new good …
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The presence of sticky, often labelled ‘unengaged', consumers is arguably one of the most intractable issues faced by competition regulators, in that it entrenches incumbency advantage. We develop a spatial linear model of heterogeneous switching costs that allows for asymmetric distributions...
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We consider a simple two period model where consumers have different switching costs. Before the market opens, there was an incumbent who sold to all consumers. We identify the equilibrium both with Stackelberg and Bertrand competition and show how the presence of low switching cost consumers...
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