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Market share inertia with more than two firms

Economics LettersPublished 1 January 1986
Suzanne Scotchmer
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Abstract

When there is market share inertia, there may exist an equilibrium in pure price strategies in a duopoly. But when the number of firms is greater than two, such an equilibrium never exists.

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Decision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance