Arbeitspapier

Bertrand competition under network externalities

Two sellers engage in price competition to attract buyers located on a network. The value of the good of either seller to any buyer depends on the number of neighbors on the network who consume the same good. For a generic specification of consumption externalities, we show that an equilibrium price equals the marginal cost if and only if the buyer network is complete or cyclic. When the externalities are approximately linear in the size of consumption, we identify the classes of networks in which one of the sellers monopolizes the market, or the two sellers segment the market.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ISER Discussion Paper ; No. 884

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Noncooperative Games
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Thema
graphs
networks
externalities
Bertrand
divide and conquer
discriminatory pricing
monopolization
segmentation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Aoyagi, Masaki
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
(wo)
Osaka
(wann)
2013

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Aoyagi, Masaki
  • Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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