Social Welfare under Quantity Competition and Price Competition in a Mixed Duopoly with Network Effects: An Analysis ()
Abstract
In their recent work, Matsumura and Ogawa (2012)
showed that in the context of a mixed duopoly, equilibrium social welfare is
higher in price-setting competition than in quantity-setting competition. We
found that when the strength of network effects is sufficiently high, the above
result is totally reversed; thus, in a mixed duopoly, the presence of network
effects weakens the superiority of price-setting competition with respect to
equilibrium social welfare.
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Y. Nakamura, "Social Welfare under Quantity Competition and Price Competition in a Mixed Duopoly with Network Effects: An Analysis,"
Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol. 3 No. 4, 2013, pp. 211-215. doi:
10.4236/tel.2013.34035.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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