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Record W2897672931 · doi:10.1111/caje.12360

Firms’ timing of production with heterogeneous consumers

2018· article· en· W2897672931 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
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Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicInnovation Diffusion and Forecasting
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDuopolyEconomicsMicroeconomicsProduction (economics)First-mover advantageFunction (biology)Pareto principleStrategic complementsWillingness to payConsumer demandPareto optimalIndustrial organizationCournot competitionOperations managementMathematics

Abstract

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Abstract I revisit endogenous timing in a quantity‐setting duopoly game. In the basic model, I show that given strong heterogeneity in consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) and a moderately small consumer segment with low WTP, sequential moving outcomes can appear in equilibrium with the follower enjoying second‐mover advantage. Owing to consumer heterogeneity in WTP, there is a local property that a firm's aggressive behaviour may lead to a competitor responding more aggressively. Hence, the sequential moves can restrict firms’ total outputs to avoid a price collapse, and result in firms’ strategic choices that Pareto dominate those under the simultaneous move. I further generalize my results and show that although firms compete in quantity, under some conditions of the demand function, features of strategic complements can appear.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.022

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.305
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.050 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2018
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