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The Use of Full-line Forcing Contracts in the Video Rental Industry

Ho, Justin - 2008

We provide an empirical study of bundling in a supply chain, referred to as fullline forcing. We use an extensive dataset on contracts between video retailers and movie distributors to analyze the choices made on both sides of the market: which distributors offer full-line forcing contracts,...

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A Study of Exclusionary Coalitions : The Canadian Sugar Coalition, 1888–1889

Asker, John - 2019

In this paper we examine exclusion accomplished by a coalition of firms--frequently, a coalition of suppliers and customers--that share the benefits of exclusion. As a particular historical example, we study the Canadian sugar industry of the 1880s, which was controlled by a complex coalition of...

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Exclusive Dealing

Bernheim, B. Douglas - 1996

In this paper, we provide a conceptual framework for understanding the phenomenon of exclusive dealing, and we explore the motivations for and effects of its use. For a broad class of models, we characterize the outcome of a contracting game in which manufacturers may employ exclusive dealing...

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Tying, Foreclosure, and Exclusion

Whinston, Michael D. - 1989

condemnation of this practice has been the court's belief in what has come to be known as the "leverage theory" of tying: that is … power to foreclose sales in, and thereby monopolize, a second market. In recent years, however, the leverage theory has come … used by the critics of the leverage theory which all assume that the tied good market has a competitive, constant returns …

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Merger Effects and Antitrust Enforcement : Evidence from US Retail

Bhattacharya, Vivek; Illanes, Gastón; Stillerman, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We document the effects of a comprehensive set of US retail mergers. On average, prices increase by 1.5% and quantities decrease by 2.3%, with significant heterogeneity in outcomes across mergers. Price changes correlate with the screens codified in the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. Through a...

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Antitrust, Regulation, and User Union in the Era of Digital Platforms and Big Data

Cong, Lin William; Mayer, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We model platform competition with endogenous data generation, collection, and sharing, thereby providing a unifying framework to evaluate data-related regulation and antitrust policies. Data are jointly produced from users' economic activities and platforms' investments in data infrastructure....

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Imperfect Competition and Sanitation : Evidence from Randomized Auctions in Senegal

Houde, Jean-François; Johnson, Terence; Lipscomb, Molly; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the extent to which collusion can explain the under-provision of clean sanitation technologies in developing countries. Using desludging services in Dakar as a case-study, we document that prices are 66% higher in areas where prices are likely coordinated by a large trade association,...

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Keiretsu and Relationship-Specific Investment : A Barrier to Trade?

Spencer, Barbara J. - 2000

This paper develops a model of informal procurement within Japanese keiretsu so as to consider effects on intermediate-good imports, such as auto parts. Parts-suppliers make relationship-specific investments that benefit the auto-maker and prices are determined by bargaining after investment has...

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Organizing Global Supply Chains : Input Cost Shares and Vertical Integration

Berlingieri, Giuseppe - 2018

We study how the technological importance of inputs - measured by cost shares - is related to the decision to "make" or "buy" that input. Using detailed French international trade data and an instrumental variable approach based on self-constructed input-output tables, we show that...

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Optimal Integration Strategies for the Multinational Firm

Grossman, Gene M. - 2003

We examine integration strategies of multinational firms that face a rich array of choices of international organization. Each firm in an industry must provide headquarter services from its home country, produce intermediate inputs, and assemble the intermediate goods into final products. Both...

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