Author : Federal Trade Federal Trade Commission
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781514156995
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (569 download)
Book Synopsis Price Competition and Advertising Signals by : Federal Trade Federal Trade Commission
Download or read book Price Competition and Advertising Signals written by Federal Trade Federal Trade Commission and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can price and advertising be used by vertically differentiated duopolists to signal qualities to consumers? We show that pure price separation is impossible if the vertical differentiation is small, while adding dissipative advertising ensures existence of separating equilibria. Two simple, but non-standard, equilibrium refinements are introduced to deal with the multi-sender nature of the game, and they are shown to produce a unique separating and a unique pooling profile. Pooling results in a zero-profit Bertrand outcome. Separation gives strictly positive duopoly profits, and dissipative advertising is used by the high-quality firm when products are sufficiently close substitutes. Finally, depending on the differentiation, the separating prices of both firms may be distorted upwards or downwards compared to the complete information benchmark.