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Price Competition
a form of competition based on price rather than factors such as quality or design
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Price Competition Under Stockpiling and Flexible Consumption
The article is on pricing strategy and defines the price competition. It states that the nature of consumer response to price promotion is to substantial importance to academics as well as to managers and has receive considerable attentions in the literature. A signinficant driver of the primary demand effect is...
Tags: Knowledge@Wharton, pricing strategy
White papers 2003-01-01
Real Estate Brokerage: Factors That May Affect Price Competition
Consumers paid an estimated $61 billion in residential real estate brokerage fees in 2004. Because commission rates have remained relatively uniform--regardless of market conditions, home prices, or the effort required selling a home - some economists have questioned the extent of price competition in the residential real estate brokerage industry....
Tags: Government Accountability Office, price competition, real estate, commission, barrier, industry, bank, Internet
White papers 2005-08-01
Get the Edge on Price Competition
The challenge lies in being the best at value packaging the business and convincing customers that they are getting value which makes their purchases worth more than the price they are paying. One has many more reasons for people to purchase from oneself than just price. One needs to have...
Tags: Customer, Price
White papers
The Impact Of The Reference Price System On The Pharmaceutical Market: A Theoretical Approach
This article analyses the impact of the reference price system on the price-setting strategies of the pharmaceutical firms and on the level of generic usage. This model is the first to take explicitly into account the impact of the reference price mechanism on the level of competition between brand name...
Tags: Branding, Social Science Electronic Publishing Inc., pharmaceutical company, brand, brand name, strategy
White papers 2000-02-01
Brand Awareness and Price Competition in Online Markets
This paper is a study of a model where retailers endogenously engage in both brand advertising to attract loyal customers as well as informational advertising, which consists of deciding whether and what price to list on a price comparison site. Price levels are also predicted to depend systematically on firms'...
Tags: University of California, brand advertising, branding, brand, advertisement
White papers 2004-02-01
Exclusivity And Control
We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and content providers. We provide a model of bargaining and price competition within these industries, and show that whether or not a piece of content ends up exclusive to one platform depends crucially on whether...
Tags: Pricing, content provider, pricing strategy, industry
White papers 2007-08-26
Do Switching Costs Make Markets More or Less Competitive? The Case of 800-Number Portability
The paper finds evidence that price changes after portability's announcement but before implementation are consistent with rational expectations assumptions of theoretical switching costs models. Do switching costs reduce or intensify price competition in markets where firms charge the same price to old and new consumers? The answer is theoretically ambiguous...
Tags: Stanford University
White papers 2004-09-09
Entry, Standards And Competition: Firm Strategies And The Diffusion Of Mobile Telephony
This paper studies the effects of regulatory settings and competitive environment on the performance of second-Generation (2G) mobile telecommunication. Simultaneously three related dimensions of sector performance are considered: entry time, service prices and diffusion. It is found that standardization accelerates 2G entry and diffusion, although within-standards competition triggers less aggressive...
Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, London School of Economics, diffusion, 2G, mobile, telephony, telecommunications, strategy, performance, environment
White papers 2003-03-06
Tax Competition, Location, And Horizontal Foreign Direct Investment
The author has developed a model of capital tax/subsidy competition in which imperfectly competitive firms choose both the number and the location of the plants they operate. The endogenous presence of horizontal multinationals is shown to attenuate the "Race to the bottom" and yields some results that are opposite to...
Tags: Taxes, Free trade, multinational, subsidy, foreign direct investment, tax
White papers 2006-02-21
As the Health Insurance Underwriting Cycle Turns: What Next?
After twenty-five years of a consistent health insurance underwriting cycle, the pattern of insurer profitability changed greatly in the 1990s, raising speculation about the future. The article concludes from interviews with industry experts that health plan competition and limits on plans' ability to predict costs will continue to drive a...
Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Project HOPE, health insurance, health care, volatility, forecasting, industry
White papers 2004-12-01
The Impact of Internet Price Search Intermediaries on Price Competition in Electronic Markets
While the advent of the Internet has the potential to reduce the cost of searching for products, search costs are still not zero. As a consequence, Internet retailers lacking the tremendous presence of an Amazon.com but who have lower prices have incentive to purchase the services of a price comparison...
Tags: life insurance, Internet, incentive, electronics, advertisement, software
White papers 2003-05-15
Bargaining And Fixed Price Offers: How Online Intermediaries Are Changing New Car Transactions
The Internet has introduced a variety of online buying services that expand the reach of sellers and reduce search costs for buyers. In markets in which traditional outlets establish prices through bargaining, these online intermediaries have also altered the price setting process. Perhaps the most well known example is Autobytel.com...
Tags: Autobytel Inc., intermediary, car, Internet
White papers 2007-03-20
Retail Competition in Markets with Stockpiling and Flexible Consumption
The nature of consumer response to a promotion is of substantial importance to managers and has received considerable attention in the literature. The received wisdom is that main effect of promotion is on brand switching and its impact on primary demand is marginal at best. Behavioral studies have shown that...
Tags: Knowledge@Wharton, brand
White papers 2000-06-19
A Model Of Vertical Differentiation, Brand Loyalty And Persuasive Advertising
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of advertising and quality decisions on price competition in a duopoly setting. Firms are able to differentiate their products vertically and use persuasive advertising to increase consumer brand loyalty. The model predicts that the high quality firm will advertise more...
Tags: Oregon State University, price competition, advertisement, brand loyalty, brand
White papers 2001-02-01
A Brief Note On "Markets For Innovation"
From the executive summary: ‘A potentially important development in U.S. merger Law is the emergence of the so-called “market for innovation.” The subject has been embraced by the Federal antitrust enforcement agencies. Theoretically, a “market for innovation” is recognition of a mode of non-price competition. Key enforcement officials believe that...
Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, innovation, merger, antitrust, theory
White papers 2003-01-01
Case Study: Customer Insights
A leading manufacturer of consumer goods faced eroding profits. Increasing raw material costs and retailer price competition had triggered a downward spiral of industry pricing, leading to declining profits. The company asked McKinsey to evaluate whether and how customers and other players could accommodate price increases. McKinsey team conducted extensive...
Tags: McKinsey & Co., market research, brand, team, industry
Case studies
Horizontal Product Differentiation In Auctions And Multilateral Negotiations
First-price auctions and multilateral negotiations are experimentally compared after introducing horizontal product differentiation into a standard procurement setting. The two institutions yield the buyer the same surplus, a difference from prior findings with homogeneous products that results from differentiation's influence on the sellers' pricing behavior. In particular, this paper finds...
Tags: Free trade, Clemson University, auction, negotiation, procurement, pricing strategy
White papers 2006-04-01
Entry, Pricing And Product Design In An Initially Monopolized Market
From the executive summary: 'Under plausible conditions, entry into an initially monopolized market leads to higher prices for most consumers. Entry can induce a misallocation of goods to consumers, segment the market in a way that transfers surplus to producers, and undermine aggressive pricing by the incumbent. Post entry, firms...
Tags: Pricing, Product marketing, product design, pricing strategy, incentive
White papers 2001-10-01
Capacity Dynamics And Endogenous Asymmetries In Firm Size: Online Appendix
Cost/Benefit Considerations and Asymmetric Industry Structures Asymmetries arise and persist provided that one firm has a strategic advantage over the other. The tangible form of this advantage is that one firm can get the other to stop investing; the authors have shown that this is the case under price competition...
Tags: Northwestern University, industry
White papers 2004-04-01
Internet Economics - Part I: Current Trends
There are two opposite trends in the Internet market: high competition in the prices of commoditised network services that are usually "Best effort", and ISPs striving for profitability. In this market setting M3I pricing technology may enable service differentiation and profit generation. ISPs market is characterized by intense price competition...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Pricing Strategy, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Pricing, Marketing Research, Networking, Marketing
White papers 2002-02-12
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