Abstract

Home appliance industry is one of the most competitive industries in China, but the price war also prolonged. The reasons for E-commerce price war of home appliance industry are various; this article attempts to use the game theory and information economics analysis method to discuss the form of competition pattern, and further study the possibility of price coordination behavior in the industry. The analysis to our enlightenment is that, in order to get out of the price war trap, and improve the industry competition level, home appliance enterprises must pay more attention to technology and product innovation. At the same time, E-commerce should be rational to marketing strategy; it could avoid market competition environment destruction, and loss of consumer confidence caused by excessive price war in the adverse consequences.

Highlights

  • On August 14, 2012, Liu Dongqiang, the CEO of Jingdong company, posted news in Weibo, and other senior managers including Suning, Gome responded this Weibo

  • It still made home appliance industry hard to get out “price war trap”: repetitive price war continued for a long time making all industry manufacturers actively or passively involved, so that the industry were in excessive competition situation [1]

  • Based on the above discussion, we will explore the form of E-commerce price war and how to make home appliances industry to get rid of the plight of the price war trap, which uses game theory and information economics

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Introduction

On August 14, 2012, Liu Dongqiang, the CEO of Jingdong company, posted news in Weibo, and other senior managers including Suning, Gome responded this Weibo. Tang ous reasons, it still made home appliance industry hard to get out “price war trap”: repetitive price war continued for a long time making all industry manufacturers actively or passively involved, so that the industry were in excessive competition situation [1]. Based on the above discussion, we will explore the form of E-commerce price war and how to make home appliances industry to get rid of the plight of the price war trap, which uses game theory and information economics. The analysis to our enlightenment is that, in order to get out of the price war trap, and improve the industry competition level, home appliance enterprises must pay more attention to technology and product innovation

From the “Prisoner’s Dilemma” to the “Price Game”
Nash Equilibrium and the Price War
Game Analysis of Price Coordination Possibilities
Findings
Conclusion
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