Information transmission and incentives not to price discriminate |
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Authors: | Iñaki Aguirre |
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Institution: | (1) Departamento de Fundamentos del Aná}lisis Económico, Universidad del País Vasco, Avenida del Lehendakari Aguirre 83, 48015 Bilbao, Spain. (e-mail: jepagpei@bs.ehu.es) , ES |
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Abstract: | This paper analyzes how the pricing policy of an incumbent may signal information not only on the demand level but also on
the demand composition. A signalling game with two periods and two players (an established firm and a potential entrant) is
considered. The potential entrant has incomplete information on market demand. There exist many sequential equilibria in which
the uniform price policy acts as an entry deterrence device by hiding actual market profitability. We can interpret the uniform
pricing policy as a rejection of the use of superior information on market demand composition in order to reduce the entrant's
expected profits. |
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Keywords: | JEL classification: D43 D82 |
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