Core existence in vertically differentiated markets

被引:6
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作者
Gabszewicz, Jean J. [1 ,2 ]
Marini, Marco A. [3 ,4 ]
Tarola, Ornella [3 ]
机构
[1] CORE, Louvain, Belgium
[2] Catholic Univ Louvain, Louvain, Belgium
[3] Sapienza Univ Roma, Dept Social & Econ Sci, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[4] CREI, Cadriano, Italy
关键词
Vertically differentiated markets; Price collusion; Core; Grand coalition; Coalition stability; Games with externalities; Partition function games; EXTERNALITIES; QUALITY; GAMES;
D O I
10.1016/j.econlet.2016.09.032
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We prove that a sufficient condition for the core existence in a n-firm vertically differentiated market is that the qualities of firms' products are equispaced along the quality spectrum. This result contributes to see that a fully collusive agreement among firms in such markets is more easily reachable when product qualities are not distributed too asymmetrically along the quality ladder. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:28 / 32
页数:5
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