Symmetric and Asymmetric Equilibria in a Model of Horizontal Differentiation - 2002

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(Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Matematico-Statistiche dell'Università del Salento - Collana di Economia, 30/12 / 2002)
We develop a model of horizontal differentiation with a non-uniform symmetric distribution of consumers’ preferences. Through a simple parametrization, we solve the price-location game as a function of the degree of consumers' concentration towards the middle. A symmetric equilibrium is shown to exist for all values of the concentration parameter, provided that the consumers' density is differentiable at the centre of the support of the distribution. At this equilibrium, an increase in consumer concentration is associated to a reduction in product differentiation. When the distribution becomes succiently concentrated, two asymmetric equilibria arise which coexist with the symmetric one.

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Introduction     PDF
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The model     PDF
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Consumer concentration and equilibrium prices and locations     PDF
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Remark and conclusions     PDF
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Appendix     PDF
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Bibliography     PDF
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