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Author : Xavier Wauthy
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Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Quality Choice in Models of Vertical Differentiation written by Xavier Wauthy and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Choice, Fixed Costs and Equilibrium in Models of Vertical Differentiation written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I provide a full characterization of the quality choice in duopolies with vertical differentiation, without assuming ex-ante if the market is fully covered or not. This will allow to show that covered or uncovered market configurations are endogenous outcomes of firms strategic interaction. To this purpose, I assume that firms are characterized by quadratic fixed costs of quality improvements and check whether pure-strategy subgame perfect equilibria with a corner solution always exist. Finally, my results are compared to the quality choice that maximizes the total surplus of the economy. I show that the welfare-maximizing choice of qualities does not have to be found in the same market configuration of the corresponding market equilibrium.
Author : Matteo Alvisi
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Quality Choice, Fixed Costs and Equilibrium in Models of Vertical Differentiation written by Matteo Alvisi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I provide a full characterization of the quality choice in duopolies with vertical differentiation, without assuming ex-ante if the market is fully covered or not. This will allow to show that covered or uncovered market configurations are endogenous outcomes of firms' strategic interaction. To this purpose, I assume that firms are characterized by quadratic fixed costs of quality improvements and check whether pure-strategy subgame perfect equilibria with a corner solution always exist. Finally, my results are compared to the quality choice that maximizes the total surplus of the economy. I show that the welfare-maximizing choice of qualities does not have to be found in the same market configuration of the corresponding market equilibrium.
Author : Xinghe Henry Wang
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book A Note on the High-Quality Advantage in Vertical Differentiation Models written by Xinghe Henry Wang and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well established in vertical product differentiation models that the high-quality firm reaps a larger profit in a two-stage quality-price game as long as the cost of quality improvement is zero or is borne as fixed cost in the first stage quality choice. This note shows that the high-quality advantage may fail to hold if there is variable cost of production that is dependent on quality.
Author : John Beath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521335522
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (355 download)
Download or read book The Economic Theory of Product Differentiation written by John Beath and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-02-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few industries in modern market economies that do not manufacture differentiated products. This book provides a systematic explanation and analysis of the widespread prevalence of this important category of products. The authors concentrate on models in which product selection is endogenous. In the first four chapters they consider models that try to predict the level of product differentiation that would emerge in situations of market equilibrium. These market equilibria with differentiated products are characterised and then compared with social welfare optima. Particular attention is paid to the distinction between horizontal and vertical differentiation as well as to the related issues of product quality and durability. This book brings together the most important theoretical contributions to these topics in a succinct and coherent manner. One of its major strengths is the way in which it carefully sets out the basic intuition behind the formal results. It will be useful to advanced undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in industrial economics and microeconomic theory.
Author : Dominique Olie Lauga
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Product Positioning in a Two-Dimensional Vertical Differentiation Model written by Dominique Olie Lauga and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study a duopoly model where consumers are heterogeneous with respect to their willingness to pay for two product characteristics and marginal costs are increasing with the quality level chosen on each attribute. We show that while firms seek to manage competition through product positioning, their differentiation strategies critically depend on how costly it is to provide higher quality. When the cost of providing quality is not too high, firms use only one attribute to differentiate their products: they maximally differentiate on one dimension and minimally differentiate on the other dimension (a Max-Min equilibrium). Furthermore, they always differentiate along the dimension with the greater attribute range. As for the dimension with the smaller range and along which they agglomerate, both firms either choose the highest quality level or the lowest quality level possible, depending on whether the marginal costs of quality provision are low or intermediate, respectively. However, for larger quality provision costs, firms exploit both dimensions to differentiate their products. In particular, we characterize a maximal differentiation equilibrium in which one firm chooses the highest quality level on both attributes, while its rival offers the lowest quality level on both attributes (a Max-Max equilibrium). We discuss the managerial implications of our findings and explain how they enrich and qualify previous results reported in the literature on two-dimensional differentiation models.
Author : Prajit K. Dutta
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Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Better Late Than Early written by Prajit K. Dutta and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the initial breakthrough in the research phase of R&D a new product undergoes a process of change, improvement and adaptation to market conditions. We model the strategic behavior of firms in this development phase of R&D. We emphasize that a key dimension to this competition is the innovations that lead to product differentiation and quality improvement. In a duopoly model with a single adoption choice, we derive endogeneously the level and diversity of product innovations. We demonstrate the existence of equilibria in which one firm enters early with a low quality product while the other continues to develop the technology and eventually markets a high quality good. In such an equilibrium, no monopoly rent is dissipated and the later innovator makes more profits. Incumbent firms may well be the early innovators, contrary to the predictions of the hypothesis.
Author : Jong-Say Yong
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Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Strategic Lowering of Product Quality to Deter Entry in Vertical Differentiation Models written by Jong-Say Yong and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon P. Anderson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262011280
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation written by Simon P. Anderson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The discrete choice approach provides an ideal framework for describing the demands for differentiated products and can be used for studying most product differentiation models in the literature. By introducing extra dimensions of product heterogeneity, the framework also provides richer models of firm location and product selection."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Yong-Hwan Noh
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Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Essays on Vertical Product Differentiation written by Yong-Hwan Noh and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores models of heterogeneous product markets that rely on the "vertical product differentiation" formulation. The demand structure applied here is the covered-market configuration under the vertical product differentiation. With this specification, product market equilibria of the monopoly and duopoly market are derived. In particular, parameter restrictions on the degree of relative consumer heterogeneity associated with the covered-market setting are identified and used to interpret analytical results. Based on the specified demand structure, I revisit two industrial organization topics from the perspectives of vertical product differentiation. The first essay analyzes the entry of a new product into a vertically differentiated market where an entrant and an incumbent compete in prices. Many models on strategic entry deterrence deal with "limit quantities" as the established firm's strategic tool to deter or accommodate entry. Here, however, the entry-deterrence strategies of the incumbent firm rely on "limit qualities". With a sequential choice of quality, quality-dependent marginal production cost, and a fixed entry cost, I relate the entry-quality decision and the entry-deterrence strategies to the level of an entry cost and the degree of consumer heterogeneity. In particular, the incumbent influences the quality choice of the entrant by choosing its quality level before the entrant. This allows the incumbent to "limit" the entrant's entry decision and quality levels. Quality-dependent marginal production costs in the model entail the possibility of inferior-quality entry as well as the incumbent's aggressive entry-deterrence strategies by increasing its quality level towards potential entry. Welfare evaluation confirms that social welfare is not necessarily improved when entry is encouraged rather than deterred. The second essay is motivated by some specific economic questions that have arisen with the introduction of 'genetically modified' (GM) agricultural products. A duopoly market-entry model associated with the vertical product differentiation is developed to show how the existence of segregation costs biases the firm's quality choice behavior. Thus, the key factor of the model is the cost of segregation activities that are necessary to distinguish GM products from non-GM products. With an increasing and convex cost of quality, the model predicts that the entrant firm has an increased incentive to enter the market with a low-quality good to reduce production costs if segregation costs are sufficiently high. When consumers are homogeneous enough, however, entry may occur with the high-quality good.
Author : Xavier Wauthy
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Equilibrium Vertical Differentiation in a Bertrand Model with Capacity Precommitment written by Xavier Wauthy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both quality differentiation and capacity commitment have been shown to relax price competition. However, their joint influence on the outcome of price competition has not yet been assessed. In this article, we consider a three stage game in which firms choose quality, then commit to capacity and, finally, compete in price. When the cost of quality is negligible, we show that firms do not differentiate their products in a subgame perfect equilibrium, in other words, capacity precommitment completely eliminates the incentive to differentiate by quality.
Author : Mark B. Vandenbosch
Publisher : London : Western Business School, University of Western Ontario
ISBN 13 : 9780771414244
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Product and Price Competition in a Two-dimensional Vertical Differentiation Model written by Mark B. Vandenbosch and published by London : Western Business School, University of Western Ontario. This book was released on 1992 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Taehoon Youn
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Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Essays on Economics of Vertical Product Differentiation written by Taehoon Youn and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jayson L. Lusk
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199681325
Total Pages : 923 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy written by Jayson L. Lusk and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 923 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First reference on food consumption and policy.
Author : Alex Kong
Publisher : DEStech Publications, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1605951749
Total Pages : 1908 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)
Download or read book International Conference on Management and Engineering(CME 2014) written by Alex Kong and published by DEStech Publications, Inc. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 1908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim objective of CME 2014 is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Information Management, Innovation Management, Project Management and Engineering. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration. Submitted conference papers will be reviewed by technical committees of the Conference.
Author : Alberto Cavaliere
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Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (249 download)
Download or read book Price competition with information disparities in a vertically differentiated duopoly written by Alberto Cavaliere and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stefan Lutz
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Vertical Product Differentiation and Entry Deterrence written by Stefan Lutz and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies how the existence of a potential entrant influences an incumbent's choice of quality in a model of vertical product differentiation and entry. Both firms face fixed set-up costs and quality-dependent costs of production and compete on quality and price. With identical quality-dependent costs, the incumbent will always deter entry if possible, i.e., if fixed costs are high. Quality will be set at a level lower than the optimal quality set if entry was accommodated. If entry is not blockaded, quality will be set at a level strictly lower than the optimal quality set under monopoly.
