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Wettbewerbsprobleme im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel. Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgruppe Wettbewerb des Wirtschaftspolitischen Ausschusses im Verein für Socialpolitik
Oberender, Peter (contributor) - 2014
Der Lebensmitteleinzelhandel in Deutschland ist von einer Reihe komplexer wettbewerbspolitischer Fragestellungen … gekennzeichnet. Zum einen sprechen ein fortschreitender Konzentratrationsprozess und hohe Nachfragemacht auf der Beschaffungsseite … Themen der Nachfragemacht und Konzentration wurden dabei u.a. auch die Marktabgrenzung, die Durchsetzung von …
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Der "more economic approach" in der Wettbewerbspolitik
Schmidtchen, Dieter - 2005
Die jüngsten, einem ?more economic approach? verpflichteten Reformen im europäischen Wettbewerbsrecht geben Anlaß, sich verstärkt mit der ökonomischen Effizienz als Leitbild der Wettbewerbspolitik zu befassen. In diesem Beitrag wird in Übereinstimmung mit der überwiegenden Praxis in der...
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Übernahme mittelfristig kritisch: Vodafone/Kabel Deutschland
Heimeshoff, Ulrich - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 10, pp. 657-658
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Countervailing power and dynamic efficiency
Inderst, Roman; Wey, Christian - 2010
This paper studies the impact of buyer power on dynamic efficiency. We consider a bargaining model in which buyer power arises endogenously from size and may impact on a supplier's incentives to invest in lower marginal cost. We challenge the view frequently expressed in policy circles that the...
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Buyer power in international markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2009
This paper investigates the implications for international markets of the existence of retailers/wholesalers with market power. Two main results are shown. First, in the presence of buyer power trade liberalization may lead to retail market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices...
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Quality distortions in vertical relations
Baake, Pio; von Schlippenbach, Vanessa - 2010
This paper examines how delivery tariffs and private quality standards are determined in vertical relations that are subject to asymmetric information. We consider an infinitely repeated game where an upstream firm sells a product to a downstream firm. In each period, the firms negotiate a...
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Empirical analysis of buyer power
Beckert, Walter - 2009
This paper provides a comprehensive econometric framework for the empirical analysis of buyer power. It encompasses the two main features of pricing schemes in business-to-business relationships: nonlinear price schedules and bargaining over rents. Disentangling them is critical to the empirical...
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Why powerful buyers finance suppliers' R&D
Bönte, Werner; Wiethaus, Lars - 2008
It is a common concern that pricing pressure by powerful buyers discourages suppliers' R&D investments. Employing a simple monopsonist - competitive upstream industry - framework, this paper qualifies this view in two respects. First, the monopsonist has an incentive to subsidize upstream R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291128
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Buyer Power in International Markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2008
This paper investigates the implications for international markets of the existence of retailers/wholesalers with market power. Two main results are shown. First, in the presence of buyer power trade liberalization may lead to retail market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260613
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How Strong Buyers Spur Upstream Innovation
Inderst, Roman; Wey, Christian - 2005
We challenge the view that the presence of powerful buyers stifles suppliers´ incentives to innovate. Following Katz (1987), we model buyer power as buyers´ ability to substitute away from a given supplier and isolate several effects that support the opposite view, namely that the presence of...
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