This chapter analyzes the private rationale and the social costs and benefits of market foreclosure, here defined as a … vertical foreclosure (in which full access to a bottleneck input is denied to competitors) and provides an overview of the … theory of access to an essential facility in an unregulated environment. It considers a wide array of contexts: possibility …

between a manufacturer and a retailer lead to vertical foreclosure, to the detriment of consumers and society. Finally, we …