oligopolistic markets

This dissertation is part of the effort to contribute to our understanding of Price Competition and Firm Strategies in oligopolistic markets with certain characteristics. It comprises of three chapters. Chapter 1 provides the introduction and background of the research and a brief summary of results. Chapter 2: Firms practice poaching of their rival's customers in markets where they are able to identify between their own customers and those of the rivals. This practice results in inefficiently high switching. In some ...