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Supplier fixed costs and retail market monopolization
Caprice, Stéphane; Schlippenbach, Vanessa von; 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 cartel analysis of the German labor institutions and its implications for labor market reforms
Haucap, Justus (contributor); Pauly, Uwe (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper we apply standard cartel theory to identify the major institutional stabilizers of Germany's area tariff … system of collective bargaining between a single industry union and the industry's employers association. Our cartel analysis … stabilize the labor cartel while other pro-competitive proposals have failed. We argue that the pro-competitive recommendations …
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