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@article{Levy:2020:10.1016/j.geb.2020.07.016,
author = {Levy, YJ and Veiga, A},
doi = {10.1016/j.geb.2020.07.016},
journal = {Games and Economic Behavior},
pages = {140--168},
title = {On the existence of positive equilibrium profits in competitive screening markets},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2020.07.016},
volume = {124},
year = {2020}
}

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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Frictionless consumer choices and price competition are often associated with competitive markets and vanishing equilibrium profits. We discuss vanishing profits in competitive screening markets like insurance. We assume symmetric firms which exhibit constant returns to scale. Consumer heterogeneity creates the possibility of adverse selection. Firms can offer multiple contracts in equilibrium and (importantly) in any deviation. Nash equilibrium profits vanish if each consumer has a unique optimizing bundle at equilibrium prices or, more generally, if there exists a linear ordering of contracts that dictates the preferences of firms whenever consumers are indifferent between multiple optimal contracts. Of particular interest, equilibrium profits vanish if, for each agent, indifference curves are steeper than iso-profit curves. The results extend to Miyazaki-Wilson-Spence equilibria. We provide examples of economies where there exists an equilibrium with strictly positive profit and show that these examples are robust (hold for an open set of economies).
AU  - Levy,YJ
AU  - Veiga,A
DO  - 10.1016/j.geb.2020.07.016
EP  - 168
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 0899-8256
SP  - 140
TI  - On the existence of positive equilibrium profits in competitive screening markets
T2  - Games and Economic Behavior
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2020.07.016
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899825620301093?via%3Dihub
VL  - 124
ER  -

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