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We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know neither. We show that two types of signalling...
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offers especially when many consumers prefer comparable offers. This occurs after initial periods with strong competition and … leads to lower welfare for all consumers. In treatments where firms cannot monitor the competition, firms end up having to …
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increase with the intensity of competition. We develop a new measure of competition for which we use the proximity (in … departure time) of a given flight to its competitors to infer the intensity of competition and estimate the impact of … competition on advance purchase discounts (APDs) and the dynamic pricing of airlines by exploiting plausibly exogenous changes in …
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This paper demonstrates that the standard conclusions regarding the comparison of Cournot and Bertrand competition are … Cournot competition yields higher output, lower wholesale prices, lower final prices, higher consumers' surplus, and higher … total welfare than Bertrand competition. …
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homogeneous and heterogeneous product, Cournot, Tullock competition) the Nash-2 equilibrium sets are obtained and considered as … tacit collusion or strong competition in dependence of additional security considerations …
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