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Quality differentiation in durable goods monopoly always yields strictly positive profits

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  • Didier Laussel

    (Aix-Marseille Univ., CNRS, EHESS, Centrale Marseille, AMSE)

  • Ngo Van Long

    (Department of Economics, McGill University)

Abstract

A durable good monopolist can discriminate between buyers in each period by offering them a sequence of price-quality menus (second-degree price discrimination). We show that, contrary to the Coase conjecture for the homogeneous durable good monopoly, under vertical differentiation, when the consumers base their expectations on the size of the market at the end of each period, the profit of a monopolist that cannot commit to future price-quality menus is bounded below by a strictly positive value independent of the discount factor.

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  • Didier Laussel & Ngo Van Long, 2022. "Quality differentiation in durable goods monopoly always yields strictly positive profits," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 42(2), pages 546-552.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-21-01131
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    Keywords

    product quality; durable good monopoly; second-degree price discrimination; Coase conjecture.;
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    JEL classification:

    • L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
    • C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory

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