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Price competition between an expert and a non-expert

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  • Bouckaert, Jan
  • Degryse, Hans

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This paper characterizes price competition between an expert and a non-expert. In contrast with the expert, the non-expert’s repair technology is not always successful. Consumers visit the expert after experiencing an unsuccessful match at the non-expert. This re-entry affects the behaviour of both sellers. For low enough probability of successful repair at the non-expert, all consumers first visit the non-expert, and a ‘timid-pricing’ equilibrium results. If the non-expert’s repair technology performs well enough, it pays for some consumers to disregard the non-expert. They directly go to the expert’s shop, and an ‘aggressive-pricing’ equilibrium results. For intermediate values of the non-expert’s successful repair a ‘mixed-pricing’ equilibrium emerges where the expert randomizes over the monopoly price and some lower price.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Volume (Year): 18 (2000)
Issue (Month): 6 (August)
Pages: 901-923

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Handle: RePEc:eee:indorg:v:18:y:2000:i:6:p:901-923

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  1. Schaumans, Catherine, 2008. "Strategic interaction between general practioners and specialists: implications for gatekeeping," Open Access publications from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven urn:hdl:123456789/167345, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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  4. Paul De Grauwe & Laura Rinaldi, 2002. "A Model of the Card Payment System and the Interchange Fee," CESifo Working Paper Series 796, CESifo Group Munich.
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