Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82809 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IME Working Paper No. 99
Publisher: 
University of Southern Denmark, Department of Environmental and Business Economics (IME), Esbjerg
Abstract: 
Pricing strategies may include the advertising of meeting-the-competition clauses (MCCs). We show in a specific spatial model scenario with differently informed consumers that MCCs primarily serve as a device to facilitate collusion instead of allowing for price discrimination between these consumers.
Subjects: 
meeting-the-competition clauses
advertising
price discrimination
competition
collusion
JEL: 
M21
M37
L40
L11
D21
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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