Antelo, Manel; Bru, Lluís - In: Spanish Economic Review 4 (2002) 4, pp. 281-300
This paper examines the strategic use of forward contracts in an industry where downstream firms must buy an essential … large firm buys forward contracts from the fringe, i.e. there is horizontal subcontracting from the large firm to the firms … becomes an anti-competitive device. We also compare the strategies of buying forward contracts and purchasing productive …