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1. Oligopolistic Competition with Differentiated Products
References:
(*) Belleflamme and Peitz, Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies, Cambridge, 2010, Chapter 3 Sections 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.3.2, 3.4
Steven C. Salop, 1979. "Monopolistic Competition with Outside Goods," Bell Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 10(1), pages 141-156, Spring.
2. Horizontal Product Differentiation
References:
(*) Belleflamme and Peitz, Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies, Cambridge, 2010, Chapter 5 Section 1-2
Hotelling, H. (1929). Stability in Competition. The Economic Journal, 39, 41-57.
D'Aspremont, C., Gabszewicz, J. and J.-F. Thisse (1979). On Hotelling's stability in competition. Econometrica, 47, 1145–1150.
3. Vertical Product Differentiation
(*)References:
Belleflamme and Peitz, Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies, Cambridge, 2010, Chapter 5 Section 5.3
Mussa, Michael & Rosen, Sherwin, 1978. "Monopoly and product quality," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 301-317, August.
Avner Shaked and John Sutton. Relaxing Price Competition through Product Differentiation, Volume 49(1) Review of Economic Studies, 3-13 (1982).
Jaskold Gabszewicz, J. & Thisse, J. -F., 1979. "Price competition, quality and income disparities" Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 20(3), pages 340-359, June.
4. Product Differentiation and Economic Theory: some Applications
Procurement auctions with horizontally differentiated suppliers
Esther Gal-Or, Mordechai Gal-Or and Anthony Dukes, 2007, Optimal information revelation in procurement schemes” Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 38 n. 2, pp. 400-418
Domenico Colucci, Nicola Doni and Vincenzo Valori, forthcoming, “Information policies in procurement auctions with heterogeneous suppliers”, Journal of Economics, doi: 10.1007/s00712-014-040
Green Consumers and Corporate Social Responsibility
Nicola Doni and Giorgio Ricchiuti, 2013, “Market equilibrium in the presence of green consumers and responsible firms: a comparative statics analysis”, Resource and Energy Economics, vol. 35 n. 3 pp. 380-395.
(*) Main reference