Pricing Strategy and Financial Policy

Sudipto Dasgupta and Sheridan Titman

No 5498, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Recent empirical evidence indicates that capital structure changes affect pricing strategies. In most cases, prices increase following the implementation of a leveraged buyout of a major firm in an industry, with the more levered firm charging higher prices on average. Notable exceptions exist when rival firms are relatively unlevered. The first observation is consistent with a relatively simple model where firms compete for market share on the basis of price. To explain the second observations (i.e. the exceptions) the model must be extended to allow for reputation effects related to product quality. The extended model illustrates how product market imperfections in combination with high leverage can make firms vulnerable to predatory pricing.

JEL-codes: G31 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996-03
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Published as Review of Financial Studies (1998).

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