Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93792 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
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SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 271
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
I show that Swan's (1970) independence result requires a multiplicative interaction between durability and all other quality attributes. Because there is no compelling argument for a multiplicativity in quality, monopolists tend to distort durability, even with constant marginal costs. Distortions in durability and other quality aspects are aligned exactly when the marginal cost of quality do not increase too much with durability.
Subjects: 
Durability
quality
monopoly
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Working Paper

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