{"title":"Strategic inattention of multi-product firms with free entry","authors":"Lijun Pan","doi":"10.1016/j.orl.2024.107068","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper considers the strategic (in)attention of multi-product firms with endogenous product range choice and introduces free entry prior to firms' strategic choices on attention or inattention. We find that within-firm cannibalization of multi-product firms plays a key role in determining firms' strategic behavior. Furthermore, with free entry, we identify a single threshold that determines whether all the entrants are attentive or inattentive, and hence the market structure is unique almost everywhere.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54682,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Operations Research Letters","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016763772400004X","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper considers the strategic (in)attention of multi-product firms with endogenous product range choice and introduces free entry prior to firms' strategic choices on attention or inattention. We find that within-firm cannibalization of multi-product firms plays a key role in determining firms' strategic behavior. Furthermore, with free entry, we identify a single threshold that determines whether all the entrants are attentive or inattentive, and hence the market structure is unique almost everywhere.
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