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Customer country and competitorcountry features
© Professor Daniel F. Spulber
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• Customer preferences• Elasticity of demand • Income per capita and income distribution• Customer knowledge• Distribution infrastructure • Society and culture• Political, legal and regulatory climatePredict effect on earnings and choose
target countries
Customer country featuresDistribution and sales
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• Home country: Compare advantages and disadvantages
• Customer countries footprint: Global or local competitor
• Supplier countries: Global or local manufacturing and procurement
• Partner countries: Complementary products, technologies, capabilities
• Political, legal and regulatory climate – compare effects trade agreements, home-country policies
Competitor countriesEvaluation of competitive advantage
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Tailor products and pricing
Emerging market trend of “Sachet Marketing”• Recognizes low income of mass of consumers
and tailors offerings – 2/3 of world population makes $1,500 or less per year
• Affordable sizes and products• Maintain quality and extend appeal of brands
See reading on-line: Four Billion Customers
(trendwatching.com, 2005)
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Low-cost branded products
• Unilever Ala – low-income laundry detergent brand sold in Brazil
• Microtravel – appeal of sachets to travelers of all income levels
• Whirlpool – low-cost washing machines in China and India (less than $200)
• Nokia 1100 -- popular in rural India
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Customer country features Elasticity of demand
Elasticity of excess demand faced by the firm has two components:
• Price responsiveness of firm’s customers:Market demand elasticity
• Price responsiveness of firm’s competitors:Competitor supply elasticity
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Elasticity of Demand: Price Responsiveness of Customers
Different across countries:
• Consumer tastes and incomes differ
• Consumer knowledge of goods and services differs
• Past consumption patterns affects switching costs:Installed base of product and competing products differ
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Elasticity of Demand:Price Responsiveness of Competitors
Different across countries:
• Different labor supply elasticities
• Different operating costs across countries
• Extent of domestic competition among suppliers differs due to trade barriers and domestic regulations
• Experience and technology of suppliers differs
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Do you think that Coca-Cola prices will differ?
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Elastic Demand if E > 1Example 1– Price increase from
10 to 11, that is 10%– Suppose quantity
sold falls from 200 to 160 units, that is 20%
E = 20/10 = 2
Inelastic Demand if E < 1Example 2– Price increase from 10 to
11, 10%– Suppose quantity sold
falls from 200 to 190 units, that is 5%
E = 5/10 = ½
Elasticity of Demand The percentage change in quantity sold divided by the percentage change in price PP
QQE
/
/
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Revenue Effects of the Two Examples
P1
P2
Change
in P
Q1
Q2
Change in Q
R1
R2
Change in R
10
11
10%
200
160
20%
2000
1760
(240)
10
11
10%
200
190
5%
2000
2090
90
Inelastic Demand: E = ½
Elastic Demand: E= 2
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Elasticity of demand: Optional Review
Revenue:R = P Q
Marginal revenue -- change in revenue per unit change in output:
MR = P + QΔP/ΔQ = P(1 + (Q/ΔQ)(ΔP/P))
So,MR = P(1 − 1/E).
Consumer benefit if elasticity is a constant: B(Q) = Q (E – 1)/E.
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Revenue effects
• Observe that marginal revenue is less than the price.
MR = P(1 − 1/E).
This is because raising the price affects revenue in two ways:– More is earned per unit sold– fewer units are sold
• The relative influence of these two effects is measured by the elasticity
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Revenue effects
• If the elasticity of demand is greater than one, a price increase lowers revenue (a price cut increases revenue)
• If elasticity of demand is less than one, a price increase also increases your revenue (and a price drop cuts your revenue)
Managers should try to estimate elasticity of demand numbers (formally or informally) in pricing across different countries
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Pricing by a firm with market power: Review
D(P)
Q
MR
PM
MC
PC
P
QM QC
PM(1 − 1/E) = MC.
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Pricing to market
• Prices to satisfy the profit-maximizing conditions in each country:
• PA, PF = Prices in country A and F
• EA, EF = Price elasticities of demand in country A and F
• MC = Marginal Cost
.11 MCEPA
A
.11 MCEPF
F
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Pricing to market
At the Zara stores, price tags stated in many currencies and for multiple countries.
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Pricing to market
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Pricing to market
Advantages of Uniform Pricing
• Consistent pricing across countries
• Lowers transaction costs• Avoids gray market
arbitrage• Avoids customer
complaints• Global product::
standardize marketing, sales, product features
• Problem: dealing with exchange rate fluctuations
Advantages of Pricing to Market
• Meet or beat local competition
• Price leader or product differentiation strategies may differ by market served
• Maximize profit by market segment
• Tailoring marketing, sales, service and product features to local market
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Limits on Pricing to Market
• Legal restrictions on price discrimination, most-favored-nation agreements
• Limited legal protections for original seller allow gray market arbitrage
• Low trade costs allow arbitrage: Price difference must be less than cost of trade between countries A and F to avoid arbitrage:
• Differences in the elasticity of demand (responsiveness of demand to price changes) must be large enough to justify different prices in different markets
TPP FA
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Markups in the European Car Industry
Verboven (1996):• Studies 5 European
countries• Estimates relative
markups• Looks at the
wholesale level• Estimates elasticities
for different groups of cars
• Recall the price equations:
• Rewrite as relative markup:
.11 MCEPA
A
.1AA
AEP
MCP
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Markups in the European Car Industry
• Consider markup equation at the wholesale level• Customers are dealers, sellers are the
manufacturers
Pij: wholesale price in market i for model j
MCij: Marginal cost in market i for model j
• Table 3: Relative markups for selected cars• Example (100 – 95)/100 = 0.05 = 5 % = 1/20.
.1
ijij
ijij
EPMCP
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Markups in the
European Car
Industry
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Markups in the European Car Industry
• Lerner Index:
• Elasticity of demand Eik is for market i and car model in segment k
• Example:E = 20 (elastic demand)L = 1/20 = 0.05 = 5 %
• With the exception of Italy, Lerner indices increase with the class of models
.1ikE
L
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Markups in the European Car Industry
Verboven (1996):• Finds that price discrimination follows the Lerner-
indices, that is price discrimination follows demand elasticities
• Degree of price discrimination is more pronounced the lower the class - it is greater on smaller models!
• Note that Italy’s lower elasticities (higher Lerner-indices) reflect FIAT market power and high import quota restrictions
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Markups in the European Car Industry
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Markups in the European Car Industry
Verboven (1996) concludes:• Domestic car companies are able to exploit
domestic market power in lower segments
• Import quotas have stronger effects on smaller and inexpensive cars than on large and expensive cars
• The degree of price discrimination is more pronounced the lower the class
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Summary and take-away points
• Managers should perform target country analysis to estimate customer demand elasticity and competitor supply response
• Pricing to market based on differences in demand elasticities across countries, reflects customer country demand and competitor supply responses
• International business managers should weigh benefits and costs of uniform pricing versus pricing to market
• Lower costs of trade tend to enforce uniform pricing