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TITLE: Monopolistic Product Line Competition with Ex Post Consumer Heterogeneity
AUTHORS: Nikolaos Georgantzís, Aurora García-Gallego
KEYWORDS: Consumer Heterogeneity; Product Diversity; Monopolistic Competition
JOURNAL NAME: Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol.4 No.2, March 13, 2014
ABSTRACT: We model monopolistic competition in product lines, assuming that consumer heterogeneity is the result rather than the cause of product variety. Our results contradict some well-known policy implications yielded by the standard monopolistic competition framework.