Price Competition and Product Differentiation when Consumers Care for the Environment


Conrad, Klaus


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URL: https://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/1002
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-10021
Dokumenttyp: Arbeitspapier
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Titel einer Zeitschrift oder einer Reihe: Discussion Papers / Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Statistik
Band/Volume: 609
Ort der Veröffentlichung: Mannheim
Sprache der Veröffentlichung: Englisch
Einrichtung: Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre > Sonstige - Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre
MADOC-Schriftenreihe: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Statistik > Discussion Papers
Fachgebiet: 330 Wirtschaft
Fachklassifikation: JEL: H23 L11 Q38 ,
Normierte Schlagwörter (SWD): Qualität , Preis , Wettbewerb
Abstract: Increasing environmental awareness may affect the pleasure of consuming a good for which an environmental friendly substitute is available. When deciding to buy differentiated products, a compromise is sometimes made between preferred characteristics of the good and its environmental properties. In this paper we investigate the market implication of product differentiation when customers are concerned about environmental aspects of the good. We use the spacial duopoly model to determine how environmental concern affects prices, product characteristics and market shares of the competing firms. Our analysis is based on a two-stage game where at the first stage each firm chooses the characteristic of its product. At the second stage each firm chooses its price. The unique equilibrium prices and market shares are affected by consumer awareness of the environment and by the higher costs for producing those goods. As for the Nash equilibria in the characteristics we find three equilibria depending on the parameter constellation. In order to find out whether the market functions in an optimal way we determined the choice of environmental characteristics by a welfare maximizing authority. The result of this analysis is that characteristics differ under private decision making and social one. It can be shown, however, that it is possible to choose environmental policy instruments in order to stimulate private firms to produce the social optimal qualities.
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