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pressure indices, the GUPPI concept of Salop/Moresi (2009) and the vGUPPI concept of Moresi/Salop (2013). Such a simple … screen mergers between mobile network operators which compete with mobile virtual network operators in the downstream retail … imposed so that the iGUPPI for the upstream market allows for a decomposition into an upstream market version of the GUPPI and …
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This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual … media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine … economic effects of these types of mergers on market competition, focusing on digital media content distribution. In doing so …
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policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each …
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While the previous literature on exclusive dealing has been concerned with the question of how exclusive dealing can raise static profits, this paper analyzes the question of how exclusive dealing can be used to predate in a dynamic context. It is shown that exclusive dealing may arise even if...
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In this paper, we discuss from an economic perspective two alternative views of restrictions of competition by sports associations. The horizontal approach views such restrictions as an agreement among the participants of a sports league with the sports association merely representing an...
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This study constructs a simplest model to examine anticompetitive exclusive contracts that prevent a downstream buyer from buying input from a new up-stream supplier. Incorporating Nash bargaining into the standard one-buyer-one-supplier framework in the Chicago School critique, we show a...
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We study welfare effects of horizontal mergers under a successive oligopoly model and find that downstream mergers can … conditions for a reduction in input prices and welfare-improving horizontal mergers under a general demand function. Qualitative … nature of our findings remains unchanged for upstream mergers. …
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This study constructs a model of anticompetitive exclusive contracts in the presence of complementary inputs. A downstream firm transforms multiple complementary inputs into final products. When complementary input suppliers have market power, upstream competition within a given input market...
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We study upstream horizontal mergers and their potential efficiency gains. We show that an upstream horizontal merger … and decreases wholesale prices when downstream competition is not too strong. Examining whether the merger’s potential …
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