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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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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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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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A bargaining perspective on vertical integration

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

This paper analyzes vertical integration incentives in a bilaterally duopolistic industry where input market outcomes are determined by bargaining. Vertical integration incentives are a combination of horizontal integration incentives up- and downstream and depend on the strength of...

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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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Bargaining, vertical mergers and entry

Sapi, Geza - 2012

This paper analyzes vertical integration incentives in a bilaterally duopolistic industry where upstream producers bargain with downstream retailers on terms of supply. In the applied framework integration does not affect the total output produced, but it affects the distribution of rents among...

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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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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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Bertrand competition in markets with network effects and switching costs

Suleymanova, Irina; Wey, Christian - 2011

We analyze Bertrand duopoly competition in markets with network effects and consumer switching costs. Depending on the ratio of switching costs to network effects, our modelerates four different market patterns: monopolization and market sharing which can be either monotone or alternating. A...

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Regulating advertising in the presence of public service broadcasting

Stühmeier, Torben; Wenzel, Tobias - 2012

Television advertising levels in Europe are regulated according to the Audiovisual Service Media Directive where member states of the European Union usually impose stricter regulation on their Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) channels. The present model evaluates the effects of symmetric and...

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