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Downstream mode of competition with upstream market power

Manasakis, Constantine; Vlassis, Minas - 2013

In a two-tier oligopoly, where the downstream firms are locked in pair-wise exclusive relationships with their upstream input suppliers, the equilibrium mode of competition in the downstream market is endogenously determined as a renegotiation-proof contract signed between each downstream firm...

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Gender and collusion

Haucap, Justus; Heldman, Christina; Rau, Holger A. - 2022

Many cartels are formed by individual managers of different firms, but not by firms as collectives. However, most of the literature in industrial economics neglects individuals' incentives to form cartels. Although oligopoly experiments reveal important insights on individuals acting as firms,...

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Unionization structures in international oligopoly

Pagel, Beatrice; Wey, Christian - 2012

We examine how competition in international markets affects a union's choice of wage regime which can be either uniform or discriminatory. Firms are heterogenous with regard to international competition. When unions choose their wage regimes sequentially, a discriminatory outcome becomes more...

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On the role of consumer expectations in markets with network effects

Suleymanova, Irina; Wey, Christian - 2010

We analyze the role of consumer expectations in a Hotelling model of price competition when products exhibit network effects. Expectations can be strong (stubborn), weak (price-sensitive) or partially stubborn (a mix of weak and strong). As a rule, the price-sensitivity of demand declines when...

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Zero-rating and vertical content foreclosure

Jeitschko, Thomas D.; Kim, Soo Jin; Yankelevich, Aleksandr - 2019

We study zero-rating, a practice whereby an Internet service provider (ISP) that limits retail data consumption exempts certain content from that limit. This practice is particularly controversial when an ISP zero-rates its own vertically integrated content, because the data limit and ensuing...

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Reputation and foreclosure with vertical integration: Experimental evidence

Möllers, Claudia - 2016

Building on the seminal paper of Ordover, Saloner and Salop (1990), I study the role of reputation building on foreclosure in laboratory experiments. In one-shot interactions, upstream firms can choose to build a reputation by revealing their price history to the current upstream competitor. In...

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The effects of rebate contracts on the health care system

Graf, Julia - 2012

products and frequently use multiple or exclusive rebate contracts to exercise market power. Based on a Hotelling model of … horizontal and vertical product differentiation, we examine the controversy whether there exists a superior rebate scheme as far … differentiation, we find that firms clearly prefer multiple over exclusive rebate contracts. Contrary, there exists no rebate form …

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Bargaining, vertical mergers and entry

Sapi, Geza - 2012

more bargaining power to the merged entity than a horizontal merger to monopoly. The model is applied to analyze strategic …

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Supplier fixed costs and retail market monopolization

Caprice, Stéphane; von Schlippenbach, Vanessa; Wey, … - 2014

Considering a vertical structure with perfectly competitive upstream firms that deliver a homogenous good to a differentiated retail duopoly, we show that upstream fixed costs may help to monopolize the downstream market. We find that downstream prices increase in upstream firms' fixed costs...

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A bargaining perspective on vertical integration

Döpper, Hendrik; Sapi, Geza; Wey, Christian - 2022

convey more bargaining power to the merged entity than a horizontal merger to monopoly. In a bidding game for an exogenously …

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