The economics of predation: What drives pricing when there is learning-by-doing?

Yaroslav Kryukov, Ulrich Doraszelski and David Besanko

No 2011-E30, GSIA Working Papers from Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business

Abstract: Predatory pricing - a deliberate strategy of pricing aggressively in order to eliminate competitors - is one of the more contentious areas of antitrust policy and its existence and efficacy are widely debated. The purpose of this paper is to formally characterizes predatory pricing in a modern industry dynamics framework. We endogenize competitive advantage and industry structure through learning-by-doing. We show that we can isolate and measure a firm's predatory incentives by decomposing the equilibrium pricing condition. Our decomposition maps into existing economic definitions of predation and provides us with a coherent and flexible way to develop alternative characterizations of a firm's predatory incentives. We ask three interrelated questions. First, when does predation-like behavior arise? Second, what drives pricing and, in particular, how can we separate predatory incentives for pricing aggressively from efficiency-enhancing incentives for pricing aggressively in order to move further down the learning curve? Third, what is the impact of predatory incentives on industry structure, conduct, and performance?

References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://student-3k.tepper.cmu.edu/gsiadoc/WP/2011-E30.pdf
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 401 Unauthorized

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cmu:gsiawp:-878519102

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://student-3k.t ... /gsiadoc/GSIA_WP.asp

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in GSIA Working Papers from Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Steve Spear ().