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Rationale for an Innovator's Pricing Strategy
A firm develops a new production method that significantly lowers its cost of producing a good compared to all other firms in the market. Explain why this firm's profit-maximizing strategy is often to set its price just below the competitors' price, rather than setting a much lower price based on its own new, lower cost.
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