Buyer power may provide a countervailing force to enhanced seller power, and unless it leads to successive power, it … may lead to lower prices in the downstream market. However, buyer power may also be socially detrimental when it is not in …

with a capacity-constrained retailer and uncover that buyer power explains the emergence of bundling practices by a multi …

buyer power. Using an extension of the Dixit-Stiglitz model of monopolistic competition, we compare the effects of subsidies … consumers versus the case where they are distributed through a monopoly retailer with buyer power. We find that a production … different. Compared with the case where products are distributed directly to consumers, retailer buyer power reduces product …

We re-examine the “buyer power” defense to horizontal mergers using models of imperfect competition in which input …-maximizing antitrust policy is often too lax when input prices are assumed fixed, and it should be biased against buyer power claims. In an …