On Monopolistic Competition and Optimal Product Diversity: a Comment on Cost Structure and Workers' Rents

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On Monopolistic Competition and Optimal Product Diversity: a Comment on Cost Structure and Workers' Rents

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Pierre M. Picard
Eric Toulemonde

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In the Dixit-Stiglitz model of monopolistic competition, entry of firms is socially too small. Other authors have shown that excess entry is also a possibility with other preferences for diversity. We show that the cost structure and workers's rents can also explain excess entry.

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Paper provided by Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, DEEP in its series Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'Econométrie et d'Economie politique (DEEP) with number 05.02.

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- P M Picard & E Toulemonde, 2005. "On Monopolistic Competition and Optimal Product Diversity: A Comment on Cost Structure and Workers' Rents," The School of Economics Discussion Paper Series 0518, Economics, The University of Manchester. [Downloadable!]
- PICARD, Pierre M. & TOULEMONDE, Eric, 2005. "On monopolistic competition and optimal product diversity: a comment on cost structure and workersÕrents," CORE Discussion Papers 2005016, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE). [Downloadable!]

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NEP-COM-2005-07-03 (Industrial Competition)
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