Market configurations when marginal costs are quality‐dependent

CP Pires, SF Jorge, M Catalão‐Lopes… - Managerial and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Most quality‐then‐price decision models under vertical product differentiation consider a
predetermined market configuration. We endogenize market configuration considering …

[HTML][HTML] Quality-price choices and market configurations when location matters

CP Pires, M Catalão-Lopes, SF Jorge, P Garcês - Economic Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates how preexistent asymmetries in the way consumers value each
firm's product influence quality-price decisions when consumers differ in quality valuation …

[HTML][HTML] How does firms' cost structure affect their quality–price mix? An experimental analysis

A Alventosa, CP Pires, SF Jorge, J Pinho… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2023 - Elsevier
Experimental literature on product differentiation is scarce and mostly focused on horizontal
product differentiation. This paper focuses on vertical product differentiation considering a …

The Geometry of Price Competition with Quality Dependent Production Costs

C Pires, J Pinho, S Jorge… - Available at SSRN …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Vertical differentiation has always played an important role in competition and has long
been treated in the literature. Despite this lengthy path, some relevant cases are not yet fully …