The plant size problem and monopoly pricing
- Demichelis, Stefano Istituto di ricerche economiche (IRE), Facoltà di scienze economiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
- Tarola, Ornella Istituto di ricerche economiche (IRE), Facoltà di scienze economiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
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2004
19 p
English
This paper is concerned with the so called ”plant-size problem”: a demand increasing over time has to be served by a firm when there are economies of scale in plant construction. Generally the operating firm is assumed to be a cost-minimizer. We depart from this by supposing that it is a profit-maximizer, namely can manipulate demand through its own price. For the properties of a simultaneous... Show more…
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- English
- Classification
- Economics
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- RERO DOC 5203
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- https://susi.usi.ch/usi/documents/318123