antitrust (version 0.99.10)

PCAIDS-class: Class “PCAIDS”

Description

The “PCAIDS” class contains all the information needed to calibrate a PCAIDS demand system and perform a merger simulation analysis under the assumption that firms are playing a differentiated Bertrand products pricing game.

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by using the constructor pcaids.

Slots

Let k denote the number of products produced by all firms.

knownElast:

A negative number equal to the pre-merger own-price elasticity for any of the k products.

knownElastIndex:

An integer equal to the position of the `knownElast' product in the ‘shares’ vector.

Extends

Class '>AIDS, directly. Class '>Linear, by class '>AIDS, distance 2. Class '>Bertrand, by class '>Linear, distance 3. Class '>Antitrust, by class '>Bertrand, distance 4.

Methods

calcSlopes

signature(object)

Uncover nested CES demand parameters. Assumes that firms are currently at equilibrium in a differentiated product Bertrand Nash pricing game.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
showClass("PCAIDS")           # get a detailed description of the class
showMethods(classes="PCAIDS") # show all methods defined for the class
# }