Abstract
This paper examines the equilibrium incentive for firms to use behavior-based price discrimination in a duopoly market with exogenous switching costs. We find that if there is a large difference in the existing market shares between two firms, then discriminatory pricing is a unique Nash equilibrium. Otherwise, there are three Nash equilibria: both firms engage in discriminatory pricing, or engage in uniform pricing, or engage in mixed strategies. The respective firms are worse off in the discriminatory equilibrium compared with the others.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Economics Bulletin |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 Jan 15 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)