Price Competition and Setup Cost
نویسندگان
چکیده
Few studies analyze the endogenous emergence of price competition in a new product market. This paper analyzes two differentiated products, an existing and newly introduced substitutable product, investigates conditions under which endogenously emerges market context choice between engaging holding leadership. We demonstrate that Bertrand when setup cost for is high enough. result implies government policies reducing costs such as subsidies could change type to leadership
منابع مشابه
The Dynamics of Bertrand Price Competition with Cost-Reducing Investments†
We present a dynamic extension of the classic static model of Bertrand price competition that allows competing duopolists to undertake cost-reducing investments in an attempt to “leapfrog” their rival to attain low-cost leadership — at least temporarily. We show that leapfrogging occurs in equilibrium, resolving the Bertrand investment paradox., i.e. leapfrogging explains why firms have an ex a...
متن کاملPrice Competition under Cost Uncertainty: A Laboratory Analysis
We study the relation between the number of firms and price-cost margins under price competition with uncertainty about competitors’ costs. We present results of an experiment in which two, three and four identical firms repeatedly interact in this environment. In line with the theoretical prediction, market prices decrease with the number of firms, but on average stay above marginal costs. Pri...
متن کاملPrice Floors and Competition
A potential source of instability of many economic models is that agents have little incentive to stick with the equilibrium. We show experimentally that this may matter with price competition. The control variable is a price floor, which increases the cost of deviating from equilibrium. Theoretically the floor allows competitors to obtain higher profits, as low prices are excluded. However, be...
متن کاملPrice and capacity competition
We study the efficiency of oligopoly equilibria in a model where firms compete over capacities and prices. Our model economy corresponds to a two-stage game. First, firms choose their capacity levels. Second, after the capacity levels are observed, they set prices. Given the capacities and prices, consumers allocate their demands across the firms. We establish the existence of pure strategy oli...
متن کاملInformation Provision and Price Competition
Two sellers with ex-ante identical products, whose qualities can be either high or low, first choose a binary information structure, modeled as the probability that the signal reveals the state. After the buyer independently draws one private signal from each information structure, the sellers then each choose a price in the second stage. We identify two equilibria in information structures, a ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Mathematics
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2227-7390']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/math9030289