Strategic Investment and Market Integration



markets and superscripts to firm-type. If player t decides to stay out of market t monopoly will
prevail in that market. The output decision is immediately announced to all players. At the end
of period
t, the market clears and payoffs are distributed to player m and player t. Next, for
t = 1,..., n 1 period t + 1 begins and is played according to the same rules. The game ends after
period
n.

Player m’s payoff is the sum of n partial payoffs for t = 1,..., n. Player m’s revenue in market
t is υ (ʃ^f). The cost of capital is additive and the marginal cost is c0. The objective of
player
m is to maximize its total payoff:

"(k,xψ,..,x^,xeι,..,xen) = ∑ V (xΓ,xte) ck                     (1)

t=1,..,n

and it is required that x + .. + xk. Setting up a firm, i.e. entering market t, is associated
with a
fixed cost A0 for player t. Player t’s revenue is v (x^, x). Marginal capital cost is c > 0
and additive. The objective of player t = 1, ...,n is to maximize its payoff:

{v (xf, xtn) — cxf A if it enters

t t t                                                         (2)

0                       if it stays out

Next, we introduce some notation before proceeding with the analysis. I will define strate-
gic substitutes, introduce a necessary and su
fficient condition on entry-deterrence and define the
deterrence level.

We shall call x a strategic substitute for x^', if the partial cross-derivative of the profit function
with respect to the strategic variables is strictly negative. Strategic substitutes imply that when
a
firm has a more aggressive strategy, the optimal response of the other firm is to play less
aggressively. The condition that x't is a strategic substitute for x^' is referred to as S:

(S)


2 π (xt ,x*)
∂x x^


Second, a best-reply function with a non-binding capacity restriction on player m in the one-
period game
Γ, denoted βm (xf ), is introduced. Correspondingly, the entrant’s best reply function



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