Quality Choice, Fixed Costs and Equilibrium in Models of Vertical Differentiation

Alvisi, Matteo (2000) Quality Choice, Fixed Costs and Equilibrium in Models of Vertical Differentiation. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/650.
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Abstract

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.

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Alvisi, Matteo
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quality oligopoly vertical differentiation market configuration subgame perfect equilibrium welfare analysis
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17 Giu 2004
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