a merger among them. We show that when manufacturers distribute their products through multi-product retailers, a … manufacturers merger, although it leads to an increase in the wholesale prices, it can enhance product variety. The merger generated … products to consumers, a merger never results into more product variety. Still, both in the presence and in the absence of …

We modify the UPP test of Farrell and Shapiro (2010) to take into account the possibility that a merger weakens (or … eliminates) a vertical supply relationship. After deriving a general effect of the merger, we provide an example of simple …

This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation on investment incentives for Internet service providers … trade of the first-priority. Concerning the ISP's investment incentives, we find that capacity expansion affects the sale …

We study the dual relationship between market structure and prices and between market structure and investment in …. Furthermore, they also lead to higher investment per mobile operator, though the impact on total investment is not conclusive. Our …

We investigate the effect of a vertical merger on downstream firms' ability to collude in a repeated game framework. We … show that a vertical merger has two main effects. On the one hand, it increases the total collusive profits, increasing the …