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AT&T's Strategic Response to Competition: Why Not Preempt Entry?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Joan Nix  and
David Gabel
Joan Nix
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Economics, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367.
David Gabel
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Economics, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367.
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Abstract

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The idea that a monopolist would adopt a pricing strategy to deter entry is found in a wide body of research. We explore why the monopolist in the American telephone industry, AT&T, did not pursue such a strategy when its initial patents expired.

Type
Papers Presented at the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
Information
The Journal of Economic History , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 377 - 387
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1993

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