Competition Can Harm Consumers.
Duopolists selling differentiated products can generate less consumer surplus than a monopoly selling one of the products. In a Hotelling-type 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 monopol...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Blackwell Publishing Asia
2008
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