The impact of product differentiation on the channel structure in a manufacturer-driven supply chain / Angelika Endres-Fröhlich
Content
- Introduction
- Model and equilibrium analysis
- Market set-up
- Demand functions
- Retailers' price setting behavior
- Manufacturers' price setting behavior
- Welfare results
- Analysis
- Robustness: Changing numbers of manufacturers
- Conclusion
- References
- Equilibrium calculations of distribution systems
- Case a) – (A,A,A)
- Case b) – (A,A,B)
- Case c) – (A,A,AB)
- Case d) – (A,AB,B)
- Case e) – (A,AB,AB)
- Case f) – (AB,AB,AB)
- Mutually best responses
- Other comparisons
- Consequences of a manufacturer's strategy choice on profits
- Comparison producer surplus
- Comparison consumer surplus
- Robustness: Varying number of manufacturers
- Proof of Propositions