原文传递 Strategic Significance of Negative Externalities.
题名: Strategic Significance of Negative Externalities.
作者: Nagler, M. G.
关键词: Consumers; External Costs; Motor Vehicles; Negative Externalities; Network Effect; Traffic Fatility Risk
摘要: Negative externalities have competitive relevance in a market when they have selective impacts as, for example, when a product in use imposes greater costs on consumers of rival products than on other people. Because managers have discretion over aspects of product design that affect external costs, the externality in such cases may be viewed as a strategic variable. This paper presents evidence of the existence of competitively-relevant negative externalities. I introduce a metric for the externalitys competitive effect, the external cost elasticity of demand, which I estimate econometrically using data from the motor vehicle industry. Managerial implications are considered.
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