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Consumer Heterogeneity and Pricing in a Duopoly with Switching Costs.
Gabrielsen, T.S.; Vagstad, S. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2001
It is well-known that switching costs may facilitate monopoly pricing in a market with price competition between two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005675253
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Where is Aggressive Price Competition Taking Higher Education?
Winston, G.C.; Zimmerman, D.J. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 2000
universities. Using data from IPEDS we estimate the resulting distribution of prices and school quality. While price competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481896
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Agglomeration and Trade Revidited.
Orraviano, G.; Thisse, J.F. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1999
The purpose on this paper is twofold. First, we present an alternative model of agglomeration and trade that displays the main features of the recent economic geography literature while allowing for the derivation of analytical results by means of simple algebra. Second, we show how this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005478915
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Demand Uncertainty and Airline Network Morphology with Strategic Interactions.
Barla, P. - Groupe de recherche en économie de l'énergie, de … - 1999
In this paper, we examine how strategic interactions affect airline network. We develop a three stage duopoly game: at stage 1 airlines determines their network structure (linear versus hub-and-spoke). At stage 2 they decide on their capacities, and at stage 3 firms compete in quantities. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486991
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Competition Policy: Underlying Ideas and Issues.
Hilmer, F. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971313
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Co-Production and Managed Competition in Mixed Quasi-markets
Delbono, Flavio; Lanzi, Diego - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2011
the profit-oriented firrm's production costs. Secondly, the socially-preferable form of managed competition is to … introduce coproduction practices and, hence, to raise profit-oriented firm’s production costs. The diffusion of coproduction … paradigms ensures maximal service quality and eliminates mark-up from the market. …
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Choosing whether to compete: Price and format competition with consumer confusion
Crosetto, P.; Gaudeul, A. - Laboratoire d'Économie Appliquée de Grenoble, … - 2014
competition. Collusion lowers welfare for all consumers and is most frequent when many consumers prefer comparable offers. In … comparable offers. This leads to an improvement in welfare for all consumers. …
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Spatial Competition with Elastic Demand : Some Results
Nero, G - Institut d'Economie et Econométrie, Université de Genève - 1996
In this paper, a spatial (circular) model is used to endogenously determine product locations and prices when consumers have an elastic (linear) demand with a finite reservation price. I show that a symmetric two-stage Bertrand-Nash equilibrium requires maximal product differentiation....
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Does Doing Badly Encourage Management Innovation?
Nickell, S.; Nicolitasa, D.; Patterson, M. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1995
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Competition Policy for Regulated Utility Industries in Britain.
Nuttall, R.; Vickers, J. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1996
The main section of the paper analyzes the principles and practice of competition policy for utilities under six headings: price discrimination and cross-subsidy; oligopolistic behaviour; mergers and takeovers; vertical structure; network access pricing; and historical entry barriers. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090689