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Frontiers of Economics in China

ISSN 1673-3444

ISSN 1673-3568(Online)

CN 11-5744/F

邮发代号 80-978

Frontiers of Economics in China  2012, Vol. 7 Issue (3): 363-372   https://doi.org/10.3868/s060-001-012-0016-1
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Signaling Product Quality by Price
Signaling Product Quality by Price
Shane Parendo(), Cheng-Zhong Qin()
Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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Abstract

This paper analyzes the role of price as a signal of the quality of a monopoly firm's new product. The quality of the goods is drawn from a continuum and is unknown to consumers. We establish a unique separating equilibrium using equilibrium characterization results for signaling games. The equilibrium price monotonically increases with quality levels and exceeds the complete-information monopoly price for all quality levels but the lowest one. However, the upward distortion decreases as the proportion of pre-informed consumers increases. These results extend both the signaling role of price and characteristics of the separating equilibrium as established in Bagwell and Riordan (1991).

Key wordsseparating equilibrium    price distortion    signaling game
出版日期: 2012-09-05
Corresponding Author(s): Shane Parendo,Email:sparendo@econ.ucsb.edu; Cheng-Zhong Qin,Email:qin@econ.ucsb.edu   
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. Signaling Product Quality by Price[J]. Frontiers of Economics in China, 2012, 7(3): 363-372.
Shane Parendo, Cheng-Zhong Qin. Signaling Product Quality by Price. Front Econ Chin, 2012, 7(3): 363-372.
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