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For the quadratic Hotelling model, we study the optimal localization and price strategies under incomplete information on the production costs of the firms. We compute explicitly the pure Nash-Bayesian price duopoly equilibrium and we prove that it does not depend upon the distributions of the production costs of the firms, except on their first moments. We find when the maximal differentiation is a local optimum for the localization strategy of both firms.
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We are thankful to the anonymous referees for their suggestions. We acknowledge the financial support of LIAAD-INESC TEC through ‘Strategic Project—LA 14—2013–2014’ with reference PEst-C/EEI/LA0014/2013, USP-UP project, IJUP, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, FEDER, POCI 2010 and COMPETE Programmes and Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through Project “Dynamics and Applications”, with reference PTDC/MAT/121107/2010. Telmo Parreira thanks FCT, for the PhD scholarship SFRH/BD/33762/2009.
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Pinto, A.A., Parreira, T. (2014). Maximal Differentiation in the Hotelling Model with Uncertainty. In: Pinto, A., Zilberman, D. (eds) Modeling, Dynamics, Optimization and Bioeconomics I. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 73. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04849-9_34
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