跨期价格竞争

Intertemporal Price Competition

Econometrica · 1990
被引 30
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

研究销售差异化产品的企业交替定价时,产品替代性不同会导致两种均衡:产品接近替代时出现“有纪律”均衡,威胁降价支撑合谋;产品差异大时出现“自发”均衡,无需威胁。

Abstract

Alternating price competition between firms selling differentiated products to nonhomogeneous consumers can yield two different types of equilibria. One, which we call disciplined, arises when products are close substitutes. Another, which we call spontaneous, emerges when products are more differentiated. In disciplined equilibria, an implicit threat to cut price further, in response to an initial price cut, supports quite collusive outcomes, which become less collusive as product differentiation increases. In spontaneous equilibria, no such threat is needed. Consumers in the smaller market tend to pay a higher price, as do consumers served by the more efficient firm. Copyright 1990 by The Econometric Society.

交替价格竞争差异化产品非同类消费者均衡类型