Relaxing quality differentiation through capacity limitation: A note

We consider a duopoly stage game where an incumbent sells a high-quality product while enjoying an ample production capacity. We study the quality-capacity best response of an entrant, before price competition takes place. We partially characterize equilibrium prices and payoffs in the corresponding...

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Autores: Wauthy, Xavier, Boccard, Nicolas
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/24752
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/24752
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Preus -- Fixació
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Sumario:We consider a duopoly stage game where an incumbent sells a high-quality product while enjoying an ample production capacity. We study the quality-capacity best response of an entrant, before price competition takes place. We partially characterize equilibrium prices and payoffs in the corresponding Bertrand-Edgeworth pricing games and show that the entrant tends to rely exclusively on capacity limitation in a subgame perfect equilibrium, thereby showing that vertical differentiation is not robust to Bertrand-Edgeworth competition