2006Journal of Zhengzhou Institute of Aeronautical Industry ManagementRequires access

Product Differentiation and Cartel Stability

Xingyu Yan

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This paper employs a supergame model to indicate that product differentiation can increase cartel stability aiming at the intuition that product differentiation makes cartel maintaining more difficult.Furthermore,this paper gives traditional cartel a new meaning,which hopes firms can establish coalition with new meaning in order to surpass price competition and advance their international competitive power.

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This paper employs a supergame model to indicate that product differentiation can increase cartel stability aiming at the intuition that product differentiation makes cartel maintaining more difficult.Furthermore,this paper gives traditional cartel a new meaning,which hopes firms can establish coalition with new meaning in order to surpass price competition and advance their international competitive power.

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This paper employs a supergame model to indicate that product differentiation can increase cartel stability aiming at the intuition that product differentiation makes cartel maintaining more difficult.Furthermore,this paper gives traditional cartel a new meaning,which hopes firms can establish coalition with new meaning in order to surpass price competition and advance their international competitive power.

Key concepts: Cartel, Intuition, Product differentiation, Meaning (existential), Competition (biology), Order (exchange), Microeconomics, Industrial organization

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