Patterns of competition with captive customers

We study mixed-strategy equilibrium pricing in oligopoly settings where con-sumers vary in the set of suppliers they consider for their purchase-some being captive to a particular firm, some consider two particular firms, and so on. In the case of "nested reach" we find equilibria, unlike...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Armstrong, M, Vickers, J
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2018