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Collusive price rigidity under price-matching punishments
By analysing an infinitely repeated game where unit costs alternate stochastically between low and high states and where firms follow a price-matching punishment strategy, we demonstrate that the best collusive prices are rigid over time when the two cost levels are sufficiently close. This provides...
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| description | By analysing an infinitely repeated game where unit costs alternate stochastically between low and high states and where firms follow a price-matching punishment strategy, we demonstrate that the best collusive prices are rigid over time when the two cost levels are sufficiently close. This provides game theoretic support for the results of the kinked demand curve. In contrast to the kinked demand curve, it also generates predictions regarding the level and the determinants of the best collusive price, which in turn has implications for the corresponding collusive profits. The relationships between such price rigidity and the expected duration of a high-cost phase, the degree of product differentiation, and the number of firms in the market are also investigated. |
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| spelling | rr-article-94943932011-01-01T00:00:00Z Collusive price rigidity under price-matching punishments Luke Garrod (1251651) Other economics not elsewhere classified Tacit collusion Kinked demand curve Price rigidity Economics not elsewhere classified By analysing an infinitely repeated game where unit costs alternate stochastically between low and high states and where firms follow a price-matching punishment strategy, we demonstrate that the best collusive prices are rigid over time when the two cost levels are sufficiently close. This provides game theoretic support for the results of the kinked demand curve. In contrast to the kinked demand curve, it also generates predictions regarding the level and the determinants of the best collusive price, which in turn has implications for the corresponding collusive profits. The relationships between such price rigidity and the expected duration of a high-cost phase, the degree of product differentiation, and the number of firms in the market are also investigated. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Text Conference contribution 2134/16797 https://figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Collusive_price_rigidity_under_price-matching_punishments/9494393 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| spellingShingle | Other economics not elsewhere classified Tacit collusion Kinked demand curve Price rigidity Economics not elsewhere classified Luke Garrod Collusive price rigidity under price-matching punishments |
| title | Collusive price rigidity under price-matching punishments |
| title_full | Collusive price rigidity under price-matching punishments |
| title_fullStr | Collusive price rigidity under price-matching punishments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Collusive price rigidity under price-matching punishments |
| title_short | Collusive price rigidity under price-matching punishments |
| title_sort | collusive price rigidity under price-matching punishments |
| topic | Other economics not elsewhere classified Tacit collusion Kinked demand curve Price rigidity Economics not elsewhere classified |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/16797 |