Heterogenous Switching Costs

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Gary Biglaiser

University of North Carolina

Jacques Cremer

Toulouse School of Economics

Gergely Dobos

European Union - Directorate General for Competition

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Date Written: February 2014

Abstract

We consider a simple two period model where consumers have different switching costs. Before the market opens, there was an incumbent who sold to all consumers. We identify the equilibrium both with Stackelberg and Bertrand competition and show how the presence of low switching cost consumers benefits the incumbent, despite the fact that it never sells to any of them.

Keywords: switching cost

JEL Classification: D43, L13

Suggested Citation

Biglaiser, Gary and Cremer, Jacques and Dobos, Gergely, Heterogenous Switching Costs (February 2014). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9809, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2444808

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