Switching costs and competition
Bertrand competition in markets with network effects and switching costs
... and switching costs is related to asymmetries in …rms’ market shares and the possibility that dominance may alternate in a market sharing ...is competition between AM and FM standards in radio ...
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COORDINATION AND LOCK-IN: COMPETITION WITH SWITCHING COSTS AND NETWORK EFFECTS
... “life-cycle competition” can adequately replace ordinary compatible competition, and can even be fiercer than com- patible competition by weakening ...incompatible competition not only ...
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Coordination and Lock-In: Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects
... “shopping costs” are a kind of switching costs but are less apt to entail commitment ...Shopping costs may induce firms to produce a socially-excessive number of products, but insufficient ...
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Cross-Selling, switching costs and imperfect competition in British banks
... the competition in the loan market is low and switching costs are ...that switching costs in the loan market and the incompatibility cost of using an alternative provider of OBS ...
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Co-ordination and Lock-in: Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects
... of competition among ...Indeed, competition may be unusually erce because all-or-nothing compe- tition neutralizes horizontal di erentiation | since adopters focus not on matching a product to their own ...
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Switch on the competition; causes, consequences and policy implications of consumer switching costs
... quality, competition between firms may be weak and the benefits of liberalisation to consumers may be ...high costs of switching to another ...with switching costs and applies the ...
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Exploring the Impact of Switching Costs on Customer Retention in the Technology Standard Competition Market
... and Switching Costs Technical complexity refers to the level of difficulty perceived by consumer to the ...standard competition market, different standards are usually incompatible with each other, ...
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On Quantity Competition With Switching Costs
... In the markets with small potential size our model predits that large initial asymmetries will derease in equilibrium through the smaller rm inreasing its sales faster than the bigger on[r] ...
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Competition, Monopoly Maintenance, and Consumer Switching Costs
... consumer switching costs and a durable-goods producer wants to monopolize the maintenance markets for its own products for reasons consistent with the arguments of Borenstein et ...
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Competition, Monopoly Maintenance, and Consumer Switching Costs
... consumer switching costs and a durable-goods producer wants to monopolize the maintenance markets for its own products for reasons consistent with the arguments of Borenstein et ...
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Switching costs and the extent of potential competition in Brazilian banking
... The scarcity of studies accurately estimating supplier change is due to the mostly customer-specific unobserved opportunity costs. They reflect human capital requirements for changing suppliers, as well as some ...
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Competition in Banking: Switching Costs and the Limits of Antitrust Enforcement
... which competition is restricted and the stability objective ...support competition, which places them in a sort of no-man’s-land that effectively renews the dilemma of stability versus competition 5 ...
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Competition in the Spanish domestic airline sector: Market deregulation, switching costs and route cost behaviour
... increase competition between carriers (Caminal and Claici, 2007; Dowling and Uncles, ...the competition for profits can become so intense that aggregate supply profits tend to be reduced (Fong and Liu, ...
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DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES. No DYNAMIC PRICE COMPETITION WITH SWITCHING COSTS. Natalia Fabra and Alfredo García INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION ABCD
... from switching when they correctly anticipate price increases in the fu- ...when switching to the large …rm, knowing that its future prices will be higher than those of the smaller ...when switching ...
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The value of switching costs
... the switching cost literature focuses on two-period duopsony models in which firms choose between charging a high price in order to extract rents from their customers and charging a low price in order to attract ...
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Markets with Search and Switching Costs
... and switching costs before deciding which cost reduction would be most ...introducing competition for pre-purchase consumers can be strong enough to offset any anti-competitive effects resulting from ...
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Switching Costs in Network Industries
... only switching costs to one with both network effects and switching ...on switching costs without network effects finds that switching costs have a fat-cat ef- fect, which ...
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Switching Costs and Network Compatibility
... how switching costs affect firms’ behavior and market performance is partic- ularly needed in light of the recent and growing trend of regulations that aim at reducing switching costs in ...
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Markets with Search and Switching Costs
... and switching costs before deciding which cost reduction would be most ...introducing competition for pre-purchase consumers can be strong enough to offset any anti-competitive effects resulting from ...
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Switching Costs and Equilibrium Prices
... the competition effect is, which leads to more aggressive ...of switching costs on prices depend on the extent to which buyers are forward looking? In the proof of Proposition 5, I show that, as d → ...
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