competition for the prey's assets is most harmful to predators when the use of the prey's assets exerts strong negative … bidding competition for the prey. It is also shown that a restrictive merger policy might be counterproductive, since it might … increase the incentives for predation by helping predators avoid the bidding competition. Moreover, the incentive for predation …

competition. Holdup and inter-temporal links make policy design more difficult, however. Even reasonable policies may be worse …

less valuable. The latter effect is due to downstream competition between buyers and, as we show, is also stronger the …

I show that exclusive, staggered supply contracts can decrease industry competition when there are economies of scale …

efficient competitor, by exploiting externalities among buyers. We show that their results hold only when downstream competition … among buyers does not exist or is weak enough. Under fierce downstream competition, the incumbent cannot compensate a …

innovation policy in the context of EU economic law (competition policy, intellectual property law, sector regulation). As such …