Multi-period competition with switching costs: An overlapping generations formulation

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To, T
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10.2307/2950562
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I examine an infinite-period duopoly market with positive consumer switching costs and overlapping generations of consumers. When consumers have a finite time-horizon, then, unlike Beggs and Klemperer [1992], the two firms may alternate dominance from one period to the next, alternately charging high and low prices. This agrees with the intuition that firms with a high locked-in market share may set price so as to exploit that market share, which causes a subsequent low market share among the new cohort of buyers, leading to lower prices, etc.
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