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Is limit pricing evolutionarily stable?

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  • Ugur Soytas
  • Klaus Becker

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We have analyzed the question whether or not limit-pricing behavior can be viewed as a strategy, which survives the replicator dynamics in a game in which firms change strategies through imitation. Our results show that, regardless of the proportion of low cost incumbents in the population, potential entrants that play the strategy "enter" when they observe limit output are wiped out. The unique ESS consists of all low cost incumbents playing the "limit output" strategy, and all high cost incumbents playing the "monopoly output". This ESS includes potential entrants playing "stay out" after observing the limit output, and playing "enter" if monopoly output is observed in the first stage. Hence, limit pricing survives the replicator dynamics and appears in the stable state of the population. Copyright Springer Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2003

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  • Ugur Soytas & Klaus Becker, 2003. "Is limit pricing evolutionarily stable?," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 13(3), pages 281-288, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joevec:v:13:y:2003:i:3:p:281-288
    DOI: 10.1007/s00191-003-0154-z
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    1. Esther Blanco & Javier Lozano, 2015. "Ecolabels, uncertified abatement, and the sustainability of natural resources: an evolutionary approach," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 25(3), pages 623-647, July.

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