Bertrand Competition between Manufacture and Remanufacture in a Two-period Model

摘要

Take-back laws require that firms take responsibility for the collection/disposal costs of their products.This paper develop a general two-period model,especially use Bertrand Game for the price decision between manufacture and remanufacture in the second period to investigate questions of interest to managers in industry.This paper is different from other papers in the demand analysis.We thought the analysis by Bertrand,thus narrowing the scope,making the result simple.The results suggest that enactment of collective WEEE take-back will result in higher manufacturer and remanufacturer profits while simultaneously spurring remanufacturing activity.A negative effect is higher consumer prices in the market.