Economies of Scope, Entry Deterrence and Welfare

This paper develops a model where the incumbent may expand to a related market to signal economies of scope and deter entry in the former market. We show that the incumbent only expands when scope economies are large enough. Thus expansion is a signal of larger economies of scope and, for certain pa...

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Main Author: PIRES, CESALTINA PACHECO (author)
Other Authors: Catalão-Lopes, Margarida (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10174/10136
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/10136