Hviid, Morten and Olczak, Matthew (2016). Raising rivals’ fixed costs. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 23 (1), pp. 19-36.
Abstract
This article demonstrates that raising fixed costs can serve as a credible mechanism for a well placed firm to exclude its rivals. We identify a number of credible avenues, such as increased regulation, vexatious litigation and increased prices for essential inputs, through which such a firm can raise fixed costs. We show that for a wide range of oligopoly models this may be a profitable strategy, even if the firm’s own fixed costs are affected as much (or even more) than its rivals and even if it is less efficient. The resulting reduction in the number of firms in the market is detrimental to consumer welfare and hence worthy of scrutiny by competition and regulatory authorities.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13571516.2015.1055913 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School |
Additional Information: | © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Funding: ESRC (RES-578-28-0002) |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | entry deterrence,exclusion,fixed costs,monopolisation,raising rivals’ costs,Economics and Econometrics,Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) |
Publication ISSN: | 1466-1829 |
Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2024 16:04 |
Date Deposited: | 21 Oct 2015 14:05 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2016-01-01 |
Accepted Date: | 2015-08-06 |
Authors: |
Hviid, Morten
Olczak, Matthew ( ![]() |