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Television News Scheduling Revisited

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  • Pedro Barros

    (Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

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Existence problems have been pervasive in the economics literature on horizontal product differentiation. Adding a directional constraint to a standard Hotelling location model leads to a general result of non-existence of a pure strategy Nash equilibrium. Here we present a slightly different model where allowing for preferences over broadcasters, independent of arrival time at home, recovers existence of pure strategy Nash equilibria (although a mixed strategy equilibrium also exists).

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  • Pedro Barros, 2008. "Television News Scheduling Revisited," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 12(1), pages 1-4.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-08l10004
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