Journal article
Welfare Effects of Entry into Markets with Switching Costs.
- Abstract:
- In many markets, consumers have costs of switching between products that are functionally identical. This note shows that entry of efficient low-cost competitors into these markets may be socially detrimental. In a linear model, entry reduces social welfare (as conventionally defined) in more than half of the relevant parameter space. In a more general model, there is always a range of values of switching costs for which entry reduces welfare, even if the entrant's production costs are lower than the incumbent's.
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- Journal:
- Journal of Industrial Economics
- Volume:
- 37
- Publication date:
- 1988-01-01
- URN:
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- Local pid:
- oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:10998
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- Language:
- English
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- Copyright date:
- 1988
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