SPATIAL COMPETITION À LA COURNOT: PRICE DISCRIMINATION BY QUANTITY‐SETTING OLIGOPOLISTS*
作者:
Simon P. Anderson,
Damien J. Neven,
期刊:
Journal of Regional Science
(WILEY Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 30,
issue 1
页码: 1-14
ISSN:0022-4146
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1990.tb00077.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACTIn this paper, we consider oligopolistic competition in a spatial model when firms take care of goods' delivery and discriminate among consumers. Firms compete by setting quantity schedules independently over space. We show that under general conditions a Nash equilibrium in this game exists and is unique. In equilibrium, firms’ markets overlap, a feature which accords with intuition and empirical observations. Over the interval between two firms, the equilibrium spatial price schedule is quasi‐concave (quasi‐convex) when transport costs are concave (convex). With linear transport costs, the model predicts uniform delivered pricing. Uniform pricing could moreover be obtained by a combination of increasing returns to volume in transportation together with concavity of unit transport costs in dis
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