Competition can harm consumers

Duopolists selling differentiated products can generate less consumer surplus than a monopoly selling one of the products. In a Hotelling model where a monopoly supplies more than half of potential consumers, but not all, entry by a rival leads to a duopoly price that is higher than the monopoly pri...

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Main Authors: Cowan, S, Yin, X
Formato: Working paper
Idioma:English
Publicado em: 2006
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