Estimation of the Effects of New Brands on Incumbents’ Profits and Consumer Welfare: The U.S. Processed Cheese Market Case

Donghun Kim ()

Review of Industrial Organization, 2004, vol. 25, issue 3, 275-293

Abstract: I estimate the effects of new brands on market competition and consumer welfare in the U.S. processed cheese market. I find that an observed increase in consumer welfare was attributable mainly to an increase in the number of brands in the sample market, while the price effect, which measures welfare change caused by adding new brands to existing brands, decreased welfare as the prices of the existing brands increased in a large portion of sample markets. The price increase was most pronounced among the introducer’s existing brands. I also find that the data used in the paper identify a significant enhancement of consumer welfare as a result of the change in product characteristics provided by new brands even if a large portion of welfare gain is explained by the assumption on the error term in the utility function. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004

Keywords: Consumer welfare; incumbent’s profits; new brands; random coefficient model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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