Equilibria in an infinite horizon game with an incumbent, entry and switching costs

被引:6
作者
Biglaiser, Gary [1 ]
Cremer, Jacques [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ N Carolina, Dept Econ Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 USA
[2] Toulouse Sch Econ, Grp Rech Econ Math & Quantitat, CNRS, Toulouse, France
关键词
switching costs; infinite horizon game; folk theorem; C73; L1; FOLK THEOREM; SUPERGAMES; INFORMATION; STRATEGIES;
D O I
10.1111/j.1742-7363.2010.00150.x
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We consider an infinite horizon game in which a consumer incurs a switching cost when changing supplier. There is an incumbent firm at the beginning of the game, and a new entrant in each period, all with a production cost of 0. We identify the set of possible profits of the incumbent when the common discount rate of all the agents is greater than 1/2: it is the interval [0, Sigma/(1 - delta)]. There exist equilibria in which the incumbent sells the good to the consumer in every period at any price in [0, Sigma]. The result also holds with several entrants and several consumers.
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页数:11
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