价格领导

Price Leadership

Review of Economic Studies · 1992
被引 147
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

分析有产能约束的双寡头价格领导博弈,刻画价格领导均衡,解释大企业如何成为内生价格领导者。

Abstract

This paper analyzes duopolistic price-leadership games in which firms have capacity constraints. We provide a complete characterization of price leader equilibria under quite general assumptions on demand and for arbitrary capacities. We show that when capacities are in the range where the simultaneous-move price-setting game (with efficiently rationed demand) yields a mixed-strategy solution the large firm is indifferent between being a leader, a follower, or moving simultaneously. The small firm, while indifferent between being a leader and moving simultaneously, strictly prefers to be a follower. This motivates the discussion of games of timing with ex-post inflexible prices in which the large firm becomes an endogenously determined price leader. We thus provide a game-theoretic model of dominant-firm price leadership.

价格领导双寡头产能约束内生顺序