Arbeitspapier

Advertised meeting-the-competition clauses: Collusion instead of price discrimination

Pricing strategies may include the advertising of meeting-the-competition clauses (MCCs). We show in a specific spatial model scenario with differently informed consumers that MCCs primarily serve as a device to facilitate collusion instead of allowing for price discrimination between these consumers.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IME Working Paper ; No. 99

Classification
Wirtschaft
Business Economics
Advertising
Antitrust Issues and Policies: General
Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
Firm Behavior: Theory
Subject
meeting-the-competition clauses
advertising
price discrimination
competition
collusion
Betriebliche Preispolitik
Werbung
Preisdifferenzierung
Kartellrecht
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Budzinski, Oliver
Kretschmer, Jürgen-Peter
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Southern Denmark, Department of Environmental and Business Economics (IME)
(where)
Esbjerg
(when)
2010

Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Budzinski, Oliver
  • Kretschmer, Jürgen-Peter
  • University of Southern Denmark, Department of Environmental and Business Economics (IME)

Time of origin

  • 2010

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